Oh yeah; I have felt this for sure.
I've never described it to myself as having a "heavy tongue," though. I'd say it's more just a conscious, laser-honed, powerful awareness of my mouth, and a constant attention to the words that come out of it. Everything I say wrong, I freak out about.
This first started a little over a year ago, when I tripped over a word. It just blossomed from there. It's so awful. I started worrying about tripping over words, and then it happened more, because I worried about it.
Then I started getting muscle twitches, and I started worrying about those, and so of course those got worse. Then I started worrying that I had some terrible disease like MS or Parkinsons or something (even writing it out now makes me nervous!).
After a while, I'll realize I don't have a terrible disease, and then the fears will go away. Then they come back in some new flavor; some new aspect that gives my brain something logical to latch onto -- like, no matter how remote, this new thing "might mean" I have some awful illness.
Lately it's come back, even though I've defeated it so many times, and I hate it so much. The new variant is that I worry about my typing: I worry that maybe I'm not as good at it anymore (out of the blue, of course!), and that my brain is messed up, and I can't form words correctly anymore. I don't even think there's a disease that causes any of these symptoms! And yet I worry....
The thing that makes this all so awful is that speaking, typing, etc., are not conscious processes, so when you apply conscious awareness to them (e.g. if you think and pay attention to your speech), of _course_ you screw up. Have you ever consciously thought about all the things you have to do to ride a bike or tie your shoes? Give it a shot next time, and see how well it goes.
All that being said, does anyone have any tips for overcoming this fear?
Slurred speech??Kind of ..Plz help..scared
i am wondering if the way i have feeling lately also has to do with anxiety. i feel like i am talking wierd and can't stop thinking about it . i feel like my tongue is too big for my mouth. i have had anxiety issues in the past. feeling like i have a hard time breathing or swallowing but this new speech thing is new freaking me out.