I've always had trouble sleeping. It started when I was in high school. I always ended up having sleep paralysis, every single night to the point it developed into insomnia. Till this day, I have to sleep with the closet light or the tv on because, if it's dark, somehow my normal dream turns into a sleep paralysis nightmare. It got so bad that I started having home invasion/sleep paralysis nightmare. I would see someone breaking in and either about to kill my fiance or hurt me, and I wouldn't even be able to scream or to move I would be completely paralyzed. 

I'm 21 now and I still go through these phases. I would be completely fine and then all of sudden my anxiety and paranoia gets bad for a couple of weeks. I get anxious and nervous when strangers walk across my house. I have to stay up sometimes at night just to make sure that I'm alert if anything was to ever happened. If I hear a noise, I go into a straight panic that someone is breaking in. I'm terrified when I'm home alone. It's very tiring. And of course professional help would definitely work but I wouldn't mind receiving any helpful advice.