continued......The problem was I new I needed a break but there was no escape from the house beause I lived far away back home and I could not live in the library.It was one the worst times of my life when it should have been enjoyable. The stress I felt for a masters degree should not have been that intense, afterall it was not a PhD. However due to an inability to escape from anxiety every word that I typed on the keypad for an essay seemed like lifing a rock and things took ages. I never suffered from a mental block before.
I think the worst thing is that I never did anything about it until it was too late.

What has happened to you sounds similar to my own experiences. I was undertaking a masters degree with ambitions of moving onto a Phd.I was doing an absurd amount of work without giving myself any breaks. The reason for this was because I simply could not relax in the house I was living in. My housemates were disgustingly messy, utterly useless,one of them had an obsession with turning of the heating during middle of winter in Manchester and there were always disputes.
. On one occasion I had a random instruder in my room because they simply forgot to shut the front door and this was the night before an exam!!!!
The ramification of this was that I buried myself so much into my work it became an obsession and it lead to insomnia, a loss of appetite,constant vomiting due to nerves and high levels of depression. I was not just concerned about my work I had convinced myself that I could not depend on my housemates for anything.