Compelling Personal Reasons

Hi all. I previously attended an undergraduate BSc Computer Science course (2003-2007) during which I repeated my 2nd year and then withdrew during my final year. Under student finance wales rules this means I am no longer eligible for any loans, grants or support beyond the maintenance loan as I have used up my 3+1 gift year. This is extremely unhelpfulas I'm hoping to attend a local university as a mature student this September.

I suffer from severe depression and generalised anxiety disorder to the point where I have been unfit for work for the last 7 months. My first visit to a GP (ever) was in 2013 where I was diagnosed as depressed with anxiety issues, then ever since it has been a case of medications and return visits, a few suicide attempts and generally my condition becoming more evident.

Having spoken to a medical practitioner yesterday he said it was more than likely that I've suffered with these problems all of my life. Whilst at university there were certainly signs of it: I would regularly miss lectures due to exhaustion, I made no friends on my course as I'm extremely socially anxious, I was put in a student house (not halls of residence) in my first year so this added to my isolation, inhibiting my ability to develop social skills, and when I finally moved to halls of residence in my final year I was in such financial difficulties that I had to withdraw. I had barely been attending lectures, assumedly due to the aforementioned problems, so I phoned my mother in February 07 in fits of tears and she just told me to come home immediately. The university passed my outstanding accommodation fees on to a debt collector who hounded me constantly despite the fact that I'd just dropped out of uni. Finally there was another complication during my time there-my student mentor. Not only did I only meet him on 2-3 occasions during my entire time there, not once discussing my attendance or integration with the uni - only an introduction and plans for my final year project. Then came the news that in my final year my tutor had left/moved to another department. My new tutor (who I met twice-again only discussing the project) wanted me to abandon my original project plan completely, despite my having a real passion for my original plan, and instead he wanted me to work with a local charity to help develop their website or something equally uninteresting. Basically I had no mentoring during my whole time at the uni.

I've asked the university to compile a summary of the above from their perspective. I'm also seeing my GP this afternoon to discuss how my illness may have been a factor during my time at university and if she thinks it was a compelling contribution to my time there, especially from the point of my failed second year onwards. If she agrees and is willing to write a letter of support, alongside the document of events from the university, do you think this is a strong enough case to have my funding reinstated? Apologies for the wall of text but this is playing on my mind continuously.