How to battle insomnia without drugs

My advice to you is this. Set an awake time and stick to it no matter how much sleep you get, always get up at the same time. After a month or so establish a bedtime depending on if you need 7, 7.5 or 8 hours of sleep per night. When you do this try to either have a sound machine or app (I have the rain rain app) or concentrate on your breathing and as soon as your thoughts begin to wander, get back to the sounds or your breathing. This is what has helped me,as well as, taking supplements that promote sleep. Currently, I take passion flowe, 5-HTP, Lx theanine and GSBA. I also take tamazapam and trazadome. I have been able to cut the strength of the tamazapam in half because of the supplements. I hope to cut in half again soon and eventually eliminate it all together. I was also able to cut the trazadome from 150mg to 75mg. I hope this helps.

Sorry, that is GABA and L-theanine for the supplements. I need new glasses!

I would go to my psychiatrist and consider a few sessions of psychotherapy. Anyway the first thing you should do is  to take a break from using social media and watching news for a week or so if that's possible. Surfing the Net often makes me depressed.  Consider taking long walks to cslm your mind. Plenty of fresh air before going to bed works very well for me.

I know how it feels I have had trouble sleeping since September, I have also tried many supplements and foods to try and make me tired. I think most of the time the reason people suffer chronic insomnia is due to elevated levels of cortisol (stress hormone) which can be higher then normal even without a lot of stress, doctor's don't usually realise this.

Recently I have been taking Vitamin C which is supposed to lower cortisol and I also take 500mg Magnesium citrate about an hour before bed. Magnesium citrate relaxes your nerves. I have been sleeping better since taking them. Sometimes it still takes me a while to get to sleep but I am noticeably more relaxed in bed instead of having crippling anxiety. The odd time I have taken a drug called Phenergan which is a sedating antihistamine, its not a sleeping tablet and is not addictive but its makes you drowsy enough to fall asleep faster but you cannot take it more than 2 nights in a row as you become tolerant to the sedative effects, its best to take it once every 3 night's, for example take it Monday night then not again until Thursday night. It will then be most effective, hope you resolve your sleeping issues.