I feel really unhappy with my course and university in general and want to drop out.

It’s a tricky position. Uni is a structure for people. It’s fixed, certain, you do this and that then you qualify.
If you have a plan then it’s fine. If you feel that you are going to fall deeper into the lack of routine and structure then struggle to motivate yourself to achieve anything further in life then brute force your way through uni.
You mentioned gaming and honestly I’ll be worried because anecdotal but my friends brother quit uni, fell into depression and spent his year gaming, barely communicating.
I’m going to say you have to push yourself once you are out of uni, it’s all on you. Do you have that kind of drive and mindset to want to search for these opportunities and end up competing in these highly competitive positions? I think if anything I would opt for support at uni through counselling and extensions, get external help from study content and figure out where your time is going that you are not able to sleep, eat and only stressing.
Talk to your friends and ask how they are doing or managing, your peers are there too and honestly if you chose architecture then you are ambitious, you have potential, it doesn’t matter if it takes time or if you failed before. You can also take a period of interruption and come back later. There will be issues with funding through student finance but you can apply for CPR and some uni do gift year/ free of charge full repeats.

I thank you for your honesty. I just don’t think I can push through anymore. I’ve given it a go and nothing has seem to change. I have been given an extension on my history & theory essay which the original deadline was 10th November and my lecturer had replied saying I can submit it whenever I’m ready. I haven’t even started it because there’s so much to do in the other two modules. I’m always ill and I don’t really have a great immune system either. I’m currently ill now lol. So I find it difficult to catch up.

So having started university late September, I've been thinking of dropping out 3 weeks into my course (I do Architecture). I've spoken to my academic tutor and my lecturer for my modules and they have all told me to have a go at it. I've given it a go and its currently week 7 and nothing has really changed. I'm still thinking of dropping out. I've spoken to my mum about this matter and explained my reasons for wanting to drop out and although she wasn't pleased she understood from where I was coming from and told me to come back home and just find a job in my area for the time being until I know what I want to do. I've also told my friends about this and they've asked me questions like whether I would apply next year and to be honest, I said no. University isn't for me and having struggled with a levels doing a repeat year in year 12 because I wanted to change subjects, I think going to university was also a big jump for me. The independence but also the constant assignments being set every week where I've barely had any sleep, haven't eaten properly for the last few weeks and have gotten ill multiple times to the point where I've had to miss a few lectures and the thought of catching up on those just makes it more demotivating. I genuinely think I'm just done with studying in general. I've always wanted to be a primary school teacher or atleast a teaching assistant in a primary school, however I'm not really sure what path I would need to take to be able to become one. I was thinking of apprenticeships, I know apprenticeships also require people to go to uni however, I think I would prefer to do for example 80% work based and 20% studying. Atleast I don't think it would be stressful. I just want other people's thoughts on this?
I have a meeting with my Academic Tutor on Monday 24/11/25 regarding dropping out as in the email I sent him I've made up my mind about dropping out. Once completing withdrawal forms, I should be dropping out by Sunday 30/11/25. I just wanted to ask as well like have people found jobs they enjoy that don't require them to get a degree? I'm more of an artsy person (and I play too much video games sometimes) but yeah.