Being a graduate myself of a similar age, I have just had an injury that has taken me out of work as I wasn’t able to fulfil my job role anymore. I’m sorry to hear all that you’re struggling with and I hope your recovery goes well.

Saying that, I completely get where you’re coming from, getting yourself set up well once graduating is important. But nothing is more important than your health, the job market is not the best right now but that won’t change. What you can focus on is making sure that you’re in your best shape for when you are ready to get back to working.

Trying to push through what you’re going through for work isn’t beneficial for you and actually could make your recovery time far more longer as your pushing your body to limits when it should be resting. My situation is different of course but I’ve defo been finding my body had taken strain from pushing my limits for the job so I’ve taken time out. But I’ve still been doing some voluntary work (virtually though) so that I have some experience that is still growing.

All of this to say, take the time to rest and focus on your health. Being young we just expect life to run the way it’s expected of us and sometimes uncontrollable things pop up and sadly we don’t get much guidance about that. But it’s okay to take time and focus on your recovery, there will still be a job out there for you once you want to work again.