Will my dream university genuinely take my extenuating circumstances into account?

I want to study biological sciences at the University of Liverpool. (I'm from the UK, btw.)

In early 2020, I developed a few mental illnesses - beginning with an eating disorder but quickly spiralling. When schools reopened after COVID and I was meant to start year 9, my social anxiety was unbearable and, as hard as I tried, I couldn't go back. It got to a point where I couldn't leave my house whatsoever or speak to anyone outside of my family I live with. Depression then came along, which obviously made it more difficult to sort things out.

In the end, it was only in 2023 when I managed to find the will to live. In that time I'd fallen in love with science, and set out beginning the exhausting mission of self-studying for my GCSEs (towards the end of 2023). I studied everyday except on the weekends, i.e. over all the academic year's holidays.

I planned to sit for 9 subjects in November 2024, but purely due to the papers literally not existing for most of the subjects in November, I only did 5 GCSEs. I also had to change the exam board to international GCSEs (in early to mid 2024) for the 3 sciences, which made it all the more impossible. I had tutors for maths and English, but only towards the end before their summer holidays, and none for science.

I fell into a depressive episode over the summer before the exams, which gave me yet another self-inflicted disadvantage, as I couldn't revise until the last minute pressure kicked in. I get my results for the GCSEs in January, and I will almost certainly exceed passes in all of them, hopefully reaching top grades (8 or 9) for a couple of the sciences too.

I've only just properly got back on track with my mental health, and so I've lost time on my A-level studies. I'm doing biology, geography and psychology - I actually have tutors now thankfully, but only a couple times a week, so less than typical college students.

My aim is to get grades AAB, so fingers crossed I can. I'll be putting in all the effort necessary, however time is now my constraint, as I do still plan to sit the exams in summer 2026. I will be doing the practical endorsement for biology, as well as some online FutureLearn courses along side my other usual extracurriculars, like a lot of listening to science podcasts and reading some biology articles, etc.