I work full time as a caregiver for 11 elderly dementia patients. It's a physically, emotionally and socially draining job especially for someone like me who has a hard time with being social for any length of time. It just drains me. I have to put on a mask all day everyday and it wears on me. I work the evening shift from 2-11pm

Then there's school, and it starts at 8am and gets out at 11am. So basically I have no time to eat or sleep. I'm only getting 300-700 calories a day. And to top it off I have severe insomnia, so for the 6 hours that I should be sleeping, I'm tossing and turning and end up going days without sleep, risking mania.

I just ended winter term and got As and Bs in school, which is great considering I thought I was going to fail one of my classes and have to retake it.

But today I spoke to my psychiatrist about my situation and he thinks I should talk to my work and my school about getting "reasonable accommodations" because of my mental illness and its effect on my work and school. I don't know exactly what that means other than filling out paperwork and getting it signed and turned in (and I hate paperwork). But he seems to think I should have reasonable accommodations in place "just in case". I don't understand exactly what that means either.

Does anyone have experience with getting reasonable accommodations at work or school or what that even means? Am I just crazy for working full time and going to college at the same time. I want to go to grad school in a year if I can get in, and I feel like if I can handle this I can handle grad school. That's my dream.