Are you looking at other undergraduate degrees? Student Finance will only fund the length of your course, plus one additional year. So most degrees are 3 years, so you get allowed 4 years of funding in case you have to repeat a year or you start the course at one Uni and hate it so start the course at another Uni the following year. Unfortunately those are the rules, and they don't care if you dropped out due to illness or death in the family or whatever.

The reason I know this is because my brother dropped out of his first year at one Uni with depression. Then went to second Uni, passed first year, but got depressed again second year and dropped out again. After a few years he decided to retrain with a different degree, but Student Finance won't pay cos he's already had 3 years of funding, so they said they'd only pay his fees and maintenance loan for his final year, but there was no way he could pay £9k a year fees with nothing to live on, so he feared all was lost. Then he found a loop hole at the Uni he wanted to go to - if he went part-time, he just had to pay for the individual courses, which comes to about £1500 a year for 6 years (so those students paying £9000/yr for 3 years are getting ripped off!!) and he's entitled to grants being part time (you don't have to pay back), plus is working part time.

Anyway the point of my rambling is to say that there are loopholes out there, bursaries available, Disabled Students Allowance to help with course related costs like computers & printers & ink & software etc (if your MH problems are ongoing and severe enough). I studied with the Open University for a year and they were very helpful & accommodating of my MH probs, and there's financial help available if you don't have a first degree. So there's still options, don't despair!

All the best!

*Willow*