Below the Surface: Treating the Emotional Aspects of Stuttering

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Re: Fear-Frustration

From: Woody Starkweather
Date: 10/8/01
Time: 10:27:47 AM
Remote Name: 205.188.192.49

Comments

Hi Bobby:

Thank you for your comments. It sounds as though your therapist was very well trained. Figuring out how you feel and then really feeling it fully are almost always the first steps to dealing with feelings, since for many feelings are elusive and ephemeral and for others supressed into numbness. I think frustration is typically the first reaction that people, usually children, have, and for most it stays with them. One would think that a person could accommodate to it, but in my experience most stutterers have felt frustration over their stuttering since as long as they can remember.

Woody

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