Alternatively, you must be okay to have lifelong struggle and always feel inferior to everyone around you basically doing stuff effortlessly while you suffer.
I don't know what part of the world are you from, but here in Poland, ordinary 400W Bi-Facial panel costs around $80/pc, when buying from wholesaler which are plenty and accessible even to non-companies (as a proof, I did buy 4pcs myself). And if you buy in bulk, it can even be $50/pc.
But boy how much the mounting system costs - it's at least 3 times the cost of the panes if you buy them in 2xN or 4xN bulk and I'm excluding labor here.
I can either struggle for the next 30 years with whatever I wished I was doing, and be always angry at myself, others, significant other and family, or I can take meds, bear the consequences (side effects really), but be happy for the moments where they do help and I can actually do what I wished for.
Took me almost 10 years to come to that conclusion, so take your time, but once I started my therapy and medication I was so angry at myself for not doing it earlier that it took me almost 2 weeks to shake out of it.
Feel free to check my other comment in my profile that describes my troubles.
I always thought any kind of SSRI or alike will make it much worse, as many people on reddit indicate they caused it for them.
I seem to be in opposite camp where SNRI actually lift like majority of visual snow syndrome, but that was not the only syndrome I had. I believe I had something more like HPPD.
Believe me, I was scared as hell as I thought these meds will make it worse, and I am really glad now that I did try them and they did work for me. I still have a really small amount of snowing, but I can ignore it entirely and carry on with my life.
The default city, but the process was that I paid out of pocket for psychological diagnosis and then used that to talk with psychiatrist. It seems to be the "easiest" route to be taken seriously, rather than drug-seeker.
And other comments - you NEED to look for people who specialize in ADHD specifically, both on psychologist and psychiatrist side. I got SNRI only because the doc said "it's used as last resort for ADHD, perhaps it will help you" - no, it does shit nothing for ADHD in my case. But it did help with many other things so I'm still grateful for that.
Also, keep in mind that non-stimulants also do work, but they don't work _immediately_ and that requires actual regime to make know whether they work on you.
Do you really believe there is only one kind of OCD, specifically one you described?
I'm sorry to tell you, but both ADHD and OCD exist on a spectrum. Furthermore, ADHD like symptoms can be caused through other illness than actual dopamine deficiency.
I have to add my 5 cents to that because I've experienced something I've not seen anyone else experience and I think it might be worth to share it with others that might struggle with the same.
I had various neurological issues for the past 10 years, some of them common like visual migraine auras, GAD, panic attacks, and some of the less known and frankly hard to describe - visual snow, poor night vision, problems with adapting to light/dark places, constant fatigue, over stimulation (pins and needles over the whole body when overheating, as an example). On top of that, ADHD and I was really afraid of any and all kinds of medication, especially mind altering ones.
At one moment, I was in a really bad shape and place mentally and I decided to get professional help and start medicating, as I felt nothing else can help me anymore. And believe me, I did try all kinds of therapies, exercising (how do you do it with constant fatigue?), mindfulness and meditation (closing eyes when stressed was horrible experience for me!), nothing helped.
Look, you can tell me it's placebo or whatever, but I started on SNRIs and later on stimulants for ADHD. It took me _2 weeks_, to cure 80% of my neurological issues. It was almost like someone flipped a light switch in my nervous system. I still can't fully believe it or even try to understand, but my theory is that I've been genetically destined to have these problems, and "just trying hard enough" was not enough and would've never been enough.
SNRIs cured my neurological issues, and stimulants like Ritalin gave me willpower to start making positive changes and for the first time - start making habits. I believe, at least in my case, it would've been impossible without medication, or it would take me half my life to get to a place where I would've felt comfortable with myself and my problems. I believe my life is too short to fight with all of these issues alone, and I'm really glad I did start that.
tl;dr: medication gave me my life back, not just from ADHD but from variety of other issues, that ADHD just exacerbated. Please do try medication, it's not a one way door and we humans don't have infinite willpower to deal with all the issues on their own.