Does anyone have a hard time speaking?

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I’ve noticed now I struggle with every day conversations. I stutter a lot and feel like words just get sucked out of my head mid sentence a lot. Like every conversation I have. people get irritated, i get irritated too. And no it’s not just from anxiety. It’s worse when I’m anxious. I’m on zyprexa and seroquel and not currently psychotic at all. Idk what’s going on

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I do the same. Stutter alot, forget what I’m saying, zone out. Usually stay pretty silent.

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Yeah I have the same problem and I have a hard time processing my thoughts

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Yes, I will get nervous around others in a conversation and I will slur or stutter. I’ve had brain surgery before I got psychoses and they said I would have speech problems. I have way more speech problems on ap’s. I also try to stay quiet so I don’t slur my words.

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Yes, I used to have this problem too. I think it’s cognitive when you have a speech deficit.

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While I don’t technically have a problem with speech, I often take a long time to reply. I’m afraid if I don’t fully process what was said to me, I might give a wrong or foolish answer, but I think it sometimes makes conversations with me even more awkward than if I stuttered.

And it makes it hard to converse, especially in a conversation with more than 2 people where everyone is looking for an opening and will take a moment’s silence to butt in. Sometimes I just give up and listen to them talk to each other instead.

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You could try reading aloud from a book for 20 minutes per day to strengthen the speech areas of your brain. That’s what I did and it worked. It might take a month of daily practice to see a significant difference.

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For me it’s really hard to talk when you are full of anxiety

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Try writing letters to these people?

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@Moon
I don’t stutter, but I relate to words being sucked out of my brain.

I also will be thinking one thing and something else comes out.

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I stutter and have trouble getting my words out too.

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Me too. Slurring, stuttering, changing the word order, not following cues, missing a word or two, not explaining well at all my thoughts. All that and then some more when I’m super anxious.

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It’s the most frustrating symptom for me now. The others have gone awya with meds but it’s nottouching my speech issues

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