I'm an Australian university student at a smaller university, studying accounting. I have a super hard class at the moment, and I'm not even sure why but my anxiety has been super bad. I've had a nasty headache in the back of my skull for the last month or so, constantly, with the feeling of a lot of pressure in my head. (Which has been diagnosed as being caused by stress), and my IBS has been acting up, and I've just not been feeling great nor been able to do much study. It's week 6 of 12 and I'm still trying to do week 1 work.
I've considered dropping the unit and trying again next year, because I'm really not well, but I live on campus and the accommodation coordinator has told me I'll likely be evicted if I do (and they can't tell me for certain before I drop out) even though I'm continuing my studies next year and am very unwell. I don't even know if it's allowed, but it just sucks. Especially because I have to also take any job that my Centerlink* provider* finds for me (increasing my stress levels) and there is only a minimum (15 hours) that they think I can work - not a maximum. But even 15 hours would be a lot.
*Centrelink is the department in Australia in charge of handling things like student allowances and the dole. They have a zero exceptions rule for student allowances where you have to be studying full time to get the allowance. Even if you drop during the last week of semester for health reasons and will continue studying in the next semester which starts a month later, your allowance still gets cut. Because I can't study full time, I am on the dole, basically, and have an reduced capacity to work because I'm considered "sort of disabled" and have a provider that looks for work for me and I have to go see them every two weeks and do what they tell me or my payment gets cut. They keep reminding me that I can't be "too picky" (like about not wanting to work in a place that's super loud, even though that panics me) and travel distance is considered okay up to two hours travel regardless of the situation. At least they do only look for part time jobs and don't look into anything where I have to stand/be on my feet/run around all day.
I did have an exemption for looking for work, but they only allow you to do the assessment to do the test once every two years, and the assessment can only give you 6 months maximum. You can only get reassessed in this time period if your condition "considerably worsens" - not if you just get a bit worse, or don't get any better. Which is so ridiculous. I just want my degree.