I overstayed my residence permit for a whole year and I'm in desperate need for advice

I'm 22 years old and I came here to Germany in 2022 on a student visa and had my permit extended up until mid 2024 in 2023. The last time I extended my permit, I was told by the employee working there that I must get an acceptance from a university to extend my permit the next time I came.

However, this didn't work out for me. My parents insisted that I should only aim for a top university in Medicine and I was just unable to meet the language requirements and the stress from my failure just kept compounding.

I fell in a really deep downward spiral of depression. I come from a third world country with many issues (Libya) and an abusive household, so I was too scared to go back. I isolated myself from pretty much everyone and turned into a near-complete shut-in, and my physical and mental health deteriorated rapidly. I heavily considered suicide, so for a while my mind just blanked out and the crime I'm committing or any consequences that I could face just completely stopped mattering to me.

Of course, I'm well aware that none of this justifies what I did and this is still ultimately all my fault. 

I started putting things back together to some small extent recently. I got a couple of university acceptances for programs that are easier to get into and enrolled into one in hopes that I could use that to help my case even slightly. The problem is, I applied for an appointment to extend my residence, and recently, I received an email from the Ausländerbehörde that states:

"I expressly point out that anyone staying in Germany without a valid residence permit is committing a criminal offense, punishable by imprisonment of up to one year.

In your own interest, especially to avoid coercive measures under immigration law, I ask you to contact me."

I really don't know what to do at this point. Is a second chance completely out of the question? Or at the very least, is there any hope that I could lessen the severity of the consequences as much as possible? Or is this just an open-and-shut case?

Should I contact the person who sent me the email? Or hold off on responding and look for a lawyer? Or just leave the country on my own volition? (this is probably a bad idea, but I'm just putting it out there). Please, I would like as many perspectives on this matter as possible.