Even when everything adds up to things should be okay, and they are not, you're going to need to dig a little deeper to find out what is bothering you, an dhow you are going to change it.
You say you are in medical school, but keep flunking 'years', which tells me that maybe you have chosen a path that is just not for you. At some point you must have thought of changing your focus of study? To be continuously disappointed and stressed out for so long follows, as you said, with snapping at those you love, making ammends, and repeating the same behaviour.
That likely has something to do with the fact that school is not working out for you, and you have become used to this never ending pattern as you said. School- stress- failure- depression- mood changes.
While I agree that you are indeed very fortunate to have supportive parents who encourage you to keep trying, if their plan for your success (which I presume you do not share), isn't working, and instead is causing you so much anxiety, perhaps it is time to change the course of your life, beginning with what makes you stressed out in the first place- school.
I don't hear you saying that medical school is your dream, or that you've wanted to be a doctor since you were a little girl, or you are determined to get your degree.
If there is a possibility that you can change your career/school path, by talking this out with your parents, start there.
If I'm off the mark here, and you want to continue with medical school yourself, but are finding it hard to cope, then consider seeing a counsellor at school, to help you to deal with the feelings that you are having. There is no harm in talking.
If there are other contributing factors to you feeling depressed that you have not mentioned here, or more going on in your life that you want to ask about, please post again.
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