Overcoming your fears..!!

[Manpreet singh]

Usually most of the speech therapists only focus on some techniques like Bouncing,Prolongation etc. and that also in clinic environment. They make the stammerers to practice in their own comfort zones.But the real challange is to extend our comfort zone and face the new challanges which were just like a night mare for a stammerer.

So today Dr. Sachin took us to a Hospital today and we were made to come out of our comfort zone and face our night mares. At first ,we were made to talk to some patients or their relatives who were sitting in the waiting room. I was really scared at that moment. we were suppose to talk to them and ask them about their purpose of coming here and to also tell them that we are working on our speech.we talked to 6 to 7 people out of them 4 were ladies. I always hesitated to talk to any lady, so I was very much nervous at that time too. But after talking to them I felt that there is nothing like a night mare or what ever you call it. They were really understanding our problem and were very cooperative also.

The next task was to go and talk to the Supritendent of that hospital. When we went into the office ,I saw that the Supritendent is also a Lady.We talked to her and told her about ourselves and what ever techniques we learnt here. She was very happy and also said that the techniques that you pws are using must be used by every person bcoz it sounds so Cool and stylish. Then the 3rd task was to go to different windows at the hospital and just ask them something using Bouncing technique. And I think this was the best part of the day . We were enjoying bouncing and asking questions . So overall it was a gud experience .

[Dinah Martin]

Yes, it is hard to do.I don't volunteer to go out of my comfort zone, but if put in a situation where I have to, I don't back out of it either.

[Manpreet singh]

Hi Richard,

I think that this is the most important thing that we should do inorder to overcome our fears. We always try to hide our stutter and this results in so much of emotional stress. Rather then hiding our stutter , we must go out and try to advertise our stutter. Let the people know about our feelings and trauma that we have to go through.

Thanks for ur comment

[Richard Arnold]

Great post, and I totally agree with your comment about the importance of confronting your fears. I have learnt this too oveer the years. I am now 39, and in the past few years, I have purposely asked at work to be put in 'scary' situations. I've said I want to take part in meetings, I wanted to be exposed to nervous situations. Really hard to dom but it has done me a lot of good and there little better for a stutterer to deal with such a situation and to succeed.