Help?

I just need some advice/suggestions really.

I've been quite an anxious person quite a while, and stress always seems to go hand in hand with it. More recently I have realised how much it affects me.

Times when I am anxious, even after the anxiety has passed I get the sudden feelings:
-Something very bad is going to happen
-A detachment from reality, not really sure what to call it. It's as if though I suddenly don't know if anything is real or an am I really here feeling.
- Not being fully aware of where I am. I'll be laying on my bed on my side, and if I turn over, I am not quite sure where I will be, like behind me/out the window might be the room I lived in when I was a teenager.
- The feeling that out of nowhere I can feel a shift in the way something is going to happen, like feeling the moment something has changed, but I don't know what it is.
-Not remembering something I did or said
-Not remembering how long ago I did something, like I am unaware how much time has passed. I told someone something Saturday, but a few hours later when I mentioned it again,I was certain I remember saying it 3-4 days prior.
-I tend to get sick a lot, and I noticed when my anxiety/stress levels are high I get sick. I am sick at least 1-2 times a month. Always seems to be sinus infection or flu
-I get headaches
-I've been told I have mood swings
-When I talk it all comes out jumbled up

Of course this doesn't happen all at once, but over the past year or so I have noticed how the anxiety and stress is affecting me. Anyone have the same issues? How do you cope?

Hi margsityou,
Are you aware of what causes your anxiety? Or what triggers those symptoms? Have you go to a doctor to get a diagnosis or treatment?....
I can tell you about my case...i am not really being officially diagnosed with chronic panic disorders but i have suffered 5 or 6 episodes in the last 10 years that i consider some type of either anxiety or panic attacks. However, keep in mind that some people with panic disorder may suffer several atacks per weeks for example, and i have read that many people with panic attacks may even have the attack with not apparent reason or trigger, which is not my case.

In my case, every time i suffered from them i have had specific triggers, generally is connected to an "important" decision i have to make such as changing jobs, and i put quotes on the word important because sometimes I think that i give too much importance to those decisions about changing jobs and actually the root of my fear i guess is making the "bad" decision, whatever that is. In other words my anxiety is connected to being undecided about 2 choices i guess (to simplify the story). But at the end of the day even if i choose the "bad " choice is really not the end of the world, but when i am in the middle of the anxiety attack i tend to see things in a kind of black or white type of way. The symptoms i have suffered are really uncomfortable like being really nervous, not being able to sleep and having negative thoughts about the worst possible outcome but i have never felt like i am dying or if i have a heart attack as many people describe. Whenever i have such episodes i feel like drinking a LOT of water, i do not know why, since i am a person that normally forgets to drink much water.
What has helped me to overcome such episodes is to walk, breathing deeply while i walk and repeting possitive affirmations at the same time. The last time i had one i actually watched 2 or 3 videos that i found in youtube that talked about how to overcome fear of change (which i think is the root of my anxiety) and it helped me a lot. Also, i try to repeat to myself that such fear is unreal, there is not a real danger to react with panic. In other word, the panic or fear is not logical, is a reaction of your mind and as soon as you overcome the episode you will think in a more positive way.