Hi, I'm in my 3rd year of university and due to illness in my last semester I now have lots of coursework to redo. It's all due in a few days, and I'm overwhelmed. Even breaking it down just feels like I'm making more tasks. I can't repeat because I repeated second year, so SAAS won't fund my final year and I'd be unable to progress. I think my mental wellbeing would suffer more if I dropped out. I don't think I'm going to get the work done, and it feels so unfair when I wasn't at fault for not getting it done during term (I had kidney stones, and at the same time had to cut off family which caused a depressive episode). I can't get my brain to work on anything uni-related, and it just makes me feel worse and worse.
I've been reading up on burnout and it sounds a bit like what I'm experiencing, but all the advice for relieving symptoms and recovering from it is to lower my workload and take time away. I can't do that or I'll probably be kicked out of uni. I don't even know what to say to my disability advisor, and I certainly don't know what a good solution looks like here that doesn't push me even further into burnout or makes me lose my education.
I don't know what to ask for, what to say, what to do. All I can think to do is push through and get the work done, regardless of my wellbeing. So I guess my question is, is there a way to force myself to keep going despite burnout, stress, and being overwhelmed? And does anyone have a positive example of the consequences of that?