Hello, 

I have always had low scale anxiety surrounding going to shops alone, getting on busses, getting embarrassed when people ask me questions. 

Recently I have started experiencing difficulties when going to sleep, heart pounding, overthinking and feeling like events and people are flashing in my mind. I've tried paced breathing but the numbers when counting were coming out of the visualisation of the people in my minds mouth. I literally couldn't stop thinking about the things I wanted to stop thinking about. 

I was stressing out so bad I nearly couldn't sleep. When I started sleeping I descended into sleep paralysis, inside of my own room, unable to move but I felt wake the whole time so as you imagine the quality of sleep was poor. 

Same thing keeps happening now over and over again, this is not usual for me as I am a chronic oversleeper. 

Any sleep tips? 

I don't take medication for anything currently as I prefer to avoid that.