I am currently a STEM student at university in my second year (part-time). I'm studying part-time because I am repeating some second year modules which I did not complete last year due to mental health problems.
I've wanted to quit for the longest time because I simply hate uni. I bared with it for a couple years but now I really can't bring myself to continue. I find the content interesting and don't really find it hard, I just feel that uni isn't for me. I don't enjoy purely studying the facts, i prefer to apply myself which I do enjoy like in lab practicals. I hate uni to the point i genuinely struggle to go in and have barely gone in for the past year. When i do go in I can't focus on any work. I don't know what direction I'm going in either. I don't know what I want to do after, although, I have looked at the opportunity of going into research where I can apply myself or self-study and go into tech but I don't know what I should do right now.
The stress from all of this is taking a toll on my mental health to the point I can't bring myself to leave my house most days unless out of necessity. I need advice. I have spoken to my tutor but she hasn't really been giving me much advice and has told me more about the consequences of quitting regarding SFE funding (so I wouldn't be able to get funding for another degree). I did get some time off at the end of semester 2 last year and then after the summer holidays everyone (tutor, family etc) expected me to go back to uni, so I did, although I had initially wanted to take the year off to work on my mental health and get some experience to figure out what I want to do.
Now I'm back in the same place since I started uni again and I hate it. If this was my last year and only a couple months more perhaps I could have bared with it but its a couple months and then its another whole year and final year at that and I don't know if I can last that long nor if I even want to.
I don't know what the right thing is to do. Do I just continue with my degree, despite the fact that I am mentally struggling so I can have more options for me in the future or do i quit and start working (Ik it is difficult to find jobs with a lack of relevant experience) and find what suits me better?
My family aren't the most supportive either so I can't get much advice from them. Please help.