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Peg, sorry about your situation. I identify with your situation and hope I might say something that might be useful. We work such longs hours that our work environment is naturally important to us.
This is easier said than done but, you have to try and get things in to percpective.
No-one is doing this against you. You are perhaps so good at your job and many people depend on you. This is a positive aspect about you. Perhaps you need to identify what you don't think you should be doing and finding the logical people/resource to hand these jobs over to. Saying "no" to people is often the hardest thing, the knack is to say "I can't but you can get a solution this way".
Small companies are naturally resource poor. This resource paucity usually heaps more work on the more skilled people rather than spread the work and train people up. Perhaps this is something you can identify? Who could be trained up to take some of your tasks away. Who is giving you extra work and does your internal customer know someone else is priorotising/dictating your work/workload?
Where do you think the company is moving? Make your own company strategy (price, quality, customer satisfaction, etc) and email CEO type people and interview them, treat it like a college task? If they agree, good, if they don't ask them questions? If you are worried about the direction of the company you need some kind of resolution to your worries.
Try to take it easy on yourself. You are not wholly responsible for the success of the company. It is a team and the people who are managing the team, the people at the top, should know what is going on. Try to leave on time-ish. Don't work those extra hours and hours. If you have to spend extra hours at work this is identifying a lack of resource/need for an extra person. Have something at home to look forward to.
Do not leave yet. Finish your exams. Make sure you make time for your exams these are important to you. You are managing yourself, your own destiny. Others are managing the company. After you have succedded at your exams, then you will be in a better position to get a new job. The extra work/effort you are putting into being happy in your existing job might be better used in a new job/position. But remember the grass isn't always greener, have a good idea about any new job before you leave your current job.
Talk. Talk to the people above you and even below you and the other person that is giving you work. Don't let it build up but try to go through your worries logically and rationally. Plan you meetings with your boss, write down questions you want to ask and tick them off when you feel they have been answered. If he needs to come back to you make it an action on him. This doesn't have to be bitter and aggravated, it can be dealt with rationally and in a business fashion.
Sorry for the long post. Best of luck. It will be ok. :)
