Lost without meds?

I got re-diagnosed with ADD not too long ago. I tried Ritalin when I was a kid and Concerta for about a month a year and a half ago. Didn't really seem to do much for me. Now, to add onto that, I'm on an anti-psychotic so it seems like stimulants are out of the equation for me, but I'll probably talk it over with a pdoc (if I ever get one ). Anyways. I know that other disorders like depression or whatnot can make things worse too, but whatever it is, it makes everything in life more difficult to accomplish IF I can accomplish it. My confidence in my abilities to do things in a work environment are totally shot, I get crippling anxiety that does not shake once the work load is to a certain point. I've spent a total of 6 years trying to finish high school and it's just been proving impossible with the combination of all these different things coming together. Even when I persevere through my classes I can't seem to manage things. Even though I know now that I have ADD, what can really be done about it? How good are the non-medical strategies? Do I really have hope of ever finishing high school or my dream of going to college?

Seek out some resources like the ones at the top of this forum. I know there are books that offer suggestions for how to survive and even thrive. Hang in here!

Switch to a high dose of an SSRI like zoloft 200mg, or prozac 80mg (Which is what I'm on. It cured my severe panic disorder and generalized anxiety. Yes cured. I get zero anxiety now). Don't take a high dose of citalopram or escitalopram cuz it's it messes up the heart rhythm too much let alone with a stimualnt. (Prozac will mess with the heart rhythm as you increase but it wont be bad). Pritiq is stimulating and isn't that good for anxiety. Then you can take stimulant medication (I take Concerta 63mg (36mg + 27mg pills daily) because the anxiety would no longer exacerbate the underlying psychosis (Like how it is for me but you need to keep your antipsychotic obviously. I take abilify 5mg daily and risperidone 2mg when I get too paranoid which i never had to take since i started the abilify). Prozac 80mg + 5mg of abilify should equal about 7.5-10mg of abilify so maybe you would have to decrease the latuda. Also, if you still get anxiety or panic, get a benzo to take like once or twice a week (No more or you'll build tolerance eventually or what ever). I used to take clonazepam 1mg a day but my new psychiatrist is anti benzo so I had to stop.

Concerta makes me sleepy and dead. And when I stop taking it, 'm happy and the adhd is exaggerated so I have a lot more energy but less mental energy so Idk what it will do to you but usually methylphenidate makes people anxious. Dextroamphetamine it supposed to be smoother. Adderall is supposed to be the most potent and stimulanting which is why some put it like.. beside their beside table to help them get up in the morning because of the 25% levoamphetamine that it's composed of along with 75% dextroamphetamine.