Sometimes I just cant talk

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This. These both sound exactly like me. When I'm stressed, anxious or very angry I stutter and repeat words or parts of words over and over again. When I get into this cycle it can be hard for me to move past it to the rest of my sentence. Very recently at school, I was extremely anxious because one of my school grades had been put in wrong so it looked like I was failing the class, when I in fact had an A. When I went to talk to the teacher about it, I got stuck and just kept repeating "I-I-I-I-I" over and over, and using sentence fillers like, "Well, um, see" and I couldn't spit out what I wanted to say. The longer the problem lasted the more wound up I got, because I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to tell her what I needed. Fortunately, I did eventually manage it.

With regard to losing words between my brain and my mouth, I never used to have this problem, but it's been increasing for the past six or seven months. I'll have the word in my head, but when I get halfway through the sentence, the word is suddenly gone and I just freeze in the middle for five or ten seconds while I try to fish out the lost word. This can happen several times in a single conversation, and I don't know why it's suddenly become so prevalent for me.

Back in high school I also used to be prone to situational panic attacks when asked to perform orally for a test in French. I'd open my mouth but my voice was completely cut off, and I couldn't make a sound. When I did manage a syllable, it was usually the same syllable over and over again. I'm definitely glad I don't deal with those any more.