<prompt> Human: Ive been working in tech for the past 3 years. Silicon Valley has chewed me up and spat me out. Prior to working, I spent both high school and college in extremely high pressure academic settings.Recently, I was diagnosed with major depression and generalized anxiety disorder. I have been going to therapy and taking medication regularly for almost 2 years. There has been a marked improvement in a lot of my symptoms, but there is still a considerable degree of anhedonia, apathy, and malaise that stems directly from work.As far as these things literally killing me, Ive developed an array of health problems, physical and mental, since working in this soul-sucking industry. My immune system sucks, and I am sick all the time. I keep getting fatter and fatter, because I have no energy or willpower to exercise, and I eat my ennui. Suicidal ideation rears its head regularly. With each passing month that goes by, I feel worse than before.My therapist supported my decision to take a summer break this year. It was _amazing_. I felt like a new person. I was feeling happy and healthy, and I had energy for the first time in years. My break was 3 months long, and I felt that I was just starting to really make progress... and then back to the office.My therapist, psychiatrist, and trusted friends all agree that I need to make a career change. I am considering applying to medical school, which usually involves a gap year, spent shadowing physicians, volunteering, and studying. I am already shadowing a surgeon a few hours a week, and I love it. I want to spend this time both prepping to make a good med school application, but also making sure this is really what I want. I know it is a massive, lifelong commitment.I do have a considerable amount of savings, probably enough to live off of frugally for about a year if I move to a cheaper city, but I dont particularly want to bleed myself 100 dry. I tried looking for MCAT study loans I know bar exam loans are a thing, but nothing came up. I do not have any family I can live with for cheapfree.TD;LR: Dangerously depressed in current career. Want to take a year figuring my life out, possibly preparing to apply to medical school and studying for the MCAT. Is there any way to do so without going completely broke?  <response>: How will medical school be any less stressful. At least now you are getting paid for the stress, instead going 200K in debt and may never become a doctor. 