Help Methods You Use to Focus?

[Unsure and Useless]

This question most likely doesn't belong here, but I ultimately decided to write it here anyways because I'm open to methods that include SH

I don't want to waste anyone's time, so I'll be brief: how do you guys force yourself to focus?

It's impossible for me to focus on something, even if I like it, and it's genuinely ruining my life. The most obvious solution is to get medicated, but I don't have the kind of money to spend on obtaining a prescription and regularly pay for medication. I don't have a support system that can help me (if I did I wouldn't be here haha), and my family thinks this is a non-issue that can be solved with prayer

Right now, I'm taking L-tyrosine pills, but they're going to lose effectiveness the longer I take them regularly, making it an unsustainable solution. So I just need a way to force myself to focus that isn't "stare at something for hours in hopes of something happening" in order to take a break from taking L-tyrosine until they're effective again, and hopefully, if it works, I can rotate between taking L-tyrosine and doing the second method

I'm aware that there's a chance that more people on this site struggle with this and don't have solutions themselves since depression causes cognitive impairment, but I just wanted to try asking

 

[Cathy Ames]

Nicotine patches and caffeine pills with a side of L-theanine to take the edge off. You probably don't want to do like I do, though.