Vocal Vincibility - Do You Doubt Your Voice?

Here are true stories illustrating the "vocal vincibility syndrome." That term describes people who have self-sabotaged socially for years due to (inappropriate) lack of confidence in their voices. In the account of both people used in this video to illustrate the Vocal Vincibility Syndrome, their voices were normal, but they believed profoundly they were fragile... weak... incapable... defective.
You can't simply talk such individuals into believing in their voices; they must experience them as normal via "vocal boot camp.”
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[@leggiero1415]

Hi Robert! I have problems with the vocal cord closure. Before the voice break during puberty, there were no such problems and I was passionate about singing. During the voice break at 15, as far as I remember, I had very severe laryngitis, which did not go away right away and lasted for like a month. Later - the voice gradually became less resilient, which is expressed in several things. During the day, it seems to wear off or fade away, becomes quieter, the tone of the voice becomes higher and lighter, about half an octave of the head voice / reinforced falsetto disappears by the evening. In the end of the day, I go to bed, wake up the next morning with a fairly lowered voice and a feeling of slight swelling of the cords, a lot of strobass/pulse and low frequencies, and then the cycle repeats. At the age of 20, I was diagnosed with chronic laryngitis due to GERD about 5 years ago. The cause of the GERD, as I understood, was gallstone disease (it is worth noting that I was only 20 years old when these problems were revealed). Now my gallbladder has been removed, GERD does not bother me anymore, but problems with closure still remain. What could be the cause of such a problem? And I also wanted to know how the size of the epiglottis affects vocal techniques, such as twang, mixed voice, capability to close the folds in a tilted larynx position? I was told that I have an underdeveloped epiglottis, the size of a child's or a woman's. Could this be the cause of my problems with voice formation? Thank you!

[@Laryngopedia]

Very complicated questions. A second opinion from another laryngologist might help answer... Or a zoom conversation at [e-mail]?