Life is a journey etc, there will always be new opportunities to explore and retry (I went back to uni in my 30s after totally blowing college as a teen) even if it feels a bit overwhelming now. Could you get a more full time/rent paying job where you are? move in with a friend? lots of work about for Christmas etc, even if not big money.
But one thing I'd want to ask, for the sake of accountability. You say their communication was awful, how was yours? did you ask when you were resitting? I know I'm speaking from exp here, but that's the sort of thing I'd have been pretty proactive/pestering people about, if I knew it was a resit and also that I was already somewhat out of the normal class loop. I get you're saying you struggled with mental health which can often affect maintaining contact, I'm just asking in general.