Hi I'm new here and looking for some advice. Sorry this is rambling and long... I'm behind in my MSc project/dissertation which is due in two weeks. I originally started the course two years ago but had to take a leave of absence due to depression/anxiety. I started up again last September and things had been going well until a few months with the depression really starting to take hold again. It's basically zapped any motivation that I had for this project. Added to that I'm a type one diabetic and I was put on a new regime about a month ago which has my blood sugars going haywire. So I've been feeling pretty ill with that too unfortunately.

I was meant to see my supervisor last week but instead had a family emergency which is still ongoing. I really don't know how I'm going to have my project ready to submit by my deadline. There are actually two dates on my course to submit projects: one in September for winter graduation and one in December for summer graduation. The second submission is for people who have already started employment and so can only work on their projects part time. I'm meant to be starting a job at the end of September after submitting my project. I'm worried about telling my job if I have to ask my supervisor for an extension to submit on the second date. I'm worried they're going to think I'm totally incapable. My supervisor can only see me next Wednesday which only is a week before the project's due in and I don't even know how to begin explaining all this to her without sounding like I'm either making excuses or like a total basket case. She knows I've had some family stuff going on but not the rest of it. Before all of this I was sitting on a distinction and now I just feel like a failure.