[sadplant]

i'm not too sure if these problems i'm having with my speech has anything to do with my anxiety. but i'd wager it probably does, because most of the time i'm having these issues, i'm anxious.

1. stammering

2. jumbling up words - whenever i try to say a certain word, i end up saying a completely different word to what i wanted to say.

3. brain feels blocked - sometimes i KNOW what i want to say but i can't say it out loud. it feels like my brain and my voice are disconnected and i'll just end up staring into space not being able to complete my sentence.

4. forgetfulness. i constantly forget what i'm about to say in conversations.

does this happen to anyone else? it's really troublesome. sigh.

[IchbinkeinTeufel]

I get all of the above. Stuff typically attributed to anxiety. It's often embarrassing, demeaning, and depressing, to struggle to do something so ****ing simple as talking. I'm sure you know how I feel, as you probably feel the same or similarly.

[HealingNSuffering]

Yes, yes, yes and yes! It happens all the time I agree with the above poster, that its embarrassing when it happens to me. Because otherwise I have very good communication skills.

[sadplant]

Oh gosh. It really is embarrassing and troublesome. Yesterday someone made fun of me because of it, over the phone, saying my "English skills have seriously deteriorated". Ugh.

[uchiha]

I am a stutterer and when I am anxious it gets worst. It can be extremely embarrassing. I am a very smart and intelligent person, however when I stutter I feel very stupid.

[IchbinkeinTeufel]

Yeah. I also feel stupid when it happens, yet I'm certainly not. ¬_¬ It's depressing, but most of all, it makes me really ****ing angry when people don't bother to consider that you have problems, they'd sooner just take the piss, think you're stupid, illiterate, shy, or some other crap. ARGH. It's not easy. It's not just communication, though - I struggle to remember things or absorb some information, which I also attribute to anxiety; I think it's also sometimes part of my OCD, because I'm too busy obsessing over something. I'll never forget that arsehat bus driver that gave me snide remarks because I wasn't paying attention to what he said, or something - no, I actually couldn't absorb what he said because I was stressing out, trying to deal with everything going on around me, let alone communicating with him. It makes me feel like utter garbage. I make a lot of mistakes when I go out. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to the small Tesco's but 10 minutes away, only to forget for the main thing I went there.

[IndieVisible]

I definitely can relate to all that lol. People look at you like your a retard, and I feel like when when that happens!