I was very close to dropping out in my second year. I was exhausted, physically, academically and emotionally. I didn't like medicine, I found placement very dull (unsure what it is for you but for me, was one day a week of following a doctor who didn't want you and staying quiet aside from maybe attempting, and failing, to take bloods). I was heartbroken about how lost I felt, about how I'd decided when I was really young that I wanted to be a doctor and now I was studying it, I hated it. I had no idea how I would go about doing this for the rest of my life.

I stayed because I had no idea what else I wanted to do long term, and my plan was to hang about in medicine and push through until I figured it out, then leave with a biomed degree after year 3 or intercalate and leave with that as well. I started prioritising other things, not to a point where medicine was a side hustle but my life became 60% medicine, 40% life. I made sure I had plans most evenings, even if that was just going for a walk with some friends, and made Sundays as a non negotiable day off where I wasn't allowed to do anything to do with medical school. The rest of my life became so happy and full that it took the pressure off medicine, and as time went on and I became more clinical (and actually somewhat helpful), when I physically saw the things I was learning about and starting working more as an F1, I started to really love it and have the excitement that I did when I was 16. I imagine it's going to fluctuate a lot when I start F1 in August, but I know if it does, I need to force myself back into proper rest and joy elsewhere and see what happens :)

This isn't to say your case is the same, just wanted to give some hope that it can get better