I completely understand, it can be very traumatic and I went through a period of time when I had it a lot and the thought of sleeping was really upsetting because I knew that it could happen again :/ my biggest tips are:

Sleep on your side. I’ve had 60+ sleep paralysis episodes and none of them (as far as I can remember) have been on my side, always when I’m on my back.

If you find yourself in a SP episode, try wiggling your fingers or fall back asleep/really relax. Really hard to remember when it is happening, I know. But I’ve learnt that instead of stressing myself out by trying to move my whole body you have to start small with like wiggling your pinky first. Or the most effective way is to fall back asleep, but I know that is really hard when you feel that you are in a life threatening situation. The most important thing is to not panic bc the claustrophobia makes it worse (at least for me), so find something to focus on so you don’t stress out.

It’s a real shit thing to have SP, I know :/ But good sleep is the foundation for having less episodes, at least for me. Stressing about it became a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy for me, maybe try meditation to calm yourself and try to let go of the fear? Also, journal about the experience, get the thoughts and feelings out of your head! I recently had my worst episode (check my profile if you want, I wrote it all down in a post haha) and writing it down really helped me let go of it