Identify a key sentence on one of the pages which you know are different in the two versions.
Then ask your internal to urgently compare with the external ASAP to see there's a match.
Raising a flag might then allow you the opportunity to re-send the thesis.

The key thing is to stop thinking and worrying about it and get the phone call made.
Today if possible.

I can't see any problems getting this sorted if the worst comes to the worst.
Simply re-send the correct thesis and apologise like hell.
Perhaps your thesis hasn't been read yet.

rewt, what are you basing that on?

Agree with rewt here.
A PhD emotionally and mentally taxes the strongest amongst us.
I would never recommend undertaking one unless you sort out your mental health issues first.
In particular, I would be very concerned that your response, to what you thought was a poor Masters project, was to avoid the viva and your other exams.
This tells me you are not in a good place at all and I'm afraid it is highly likely that if your PhD hits problems (which it will) that you will struggle to cope.
You need a good base camp from which to explore your research topic. After you have that, sure go ahead.

This is odd behaviour and might indicate 1 of 2 things.
Either the fault lies with your ability or your supervisor is a nightmare.
Either way, it doesn't look good.

It might be time for you to consider throwing in the towel and trying elsewhere.
If your supervisor is a nightmare at 3-7 months can you imagine what they'll be like over the next 3-5 years?

Who was it who marked your failed assessment? Was that your supervisor or another member of staff?

vespa, if it's academia itself but you are not ready to move away, it might help you to plan your escape now whilst you are not in a panic to get out. You don't need to enact those plans but taking the time to think about it now will help you I think.
Don't worry, many many people change direction more than once in their career. I've lost count of how many times I've done it personally. As soon as I saw your post I recognised the symptoms.

Very pleased to hear this TQ.
Fantastic news to start a Saturday morning with.
After everything you have been through to get this, many congratulations.
I hope you find some time to sit back for a while and enjoy the moment.
This news has certainly cheered me up.

Are you sure it's the projects you are losing interest in or the entire premise of academia?
If it's happening across more than one project it might be the latter.

It sounds like it's simply ready to submit and you should do that first.
Then, whilst you are waiting for your Viva start working on the analytical changes he wants.
This will help you get ahead of the game before the Viva and makes it look like you are on top of things.

At some point, somebody is going to sue a university in a landmark case and I hope that happens sooner rather than later.
BUT. Nobody on here should be trying to push this as some sort of moral crusade onto the shoulders of someone else. The OP needs to make their own mind up and IMO they should be receiving two things from us:

1) Our best wishes and support if they choose to pursue this.
2) Genuine advice about what physical, time, financial and emotional hurdles they are almost certainly be faced with.

This is a very serious undertaking that most of us wouldn't want to put purselves through and nobody should be attempting to "spur them on" under the banner of "but what about other students?"
One or two posts have fallen into that category.

A masters or undergrad degree will restrict you to exploring a small number of subjects and the enjoyment of that can be ruined or diminished by the necessity to pass exams every few months.

A PhD is a great way to get the intellectual freedom you want providing you can control the pressure to publish. It will also give you the structure and the focus which you appear to want.

You also want to do the PhD for the right reasons IMO.

It seems a perfect match for you and your age is completely irrelevant.

Apart from the fact that expensive gifts might look like some form of corruption has taken place (and in the UK we have laws about that), what is wrong with a handshake and a "thank you"?
Am I missing something here?

If your mental health issues are either preventing you from fulfilling your work or causing problems in any capacity for others, then they have every right to sign you off on sick leave. Where they can legally go from there will depend on the country and their legislation.

Your recorded comments about needing military-style abuse are not helpful to you but I am not sure that they even need that to remove you from the work environment.

You need proper legal advice. We are happy to help on here but none of us are legal experts I suspect.

If a journal is "good" (whatever that means), they will be inundated with paper submissions. You could easily be waiting up to a year depending on the journal.
You could phone them and ask the current status.

As for the experimental stuff, that's part and parcel of research I'm afraid. 3 months is not much time. It might help if you try not to put time expectations on things. Are you able to break your setup down into manageable testable chunks to try and narrow down where the issue might be?

Both of your problems indicate an unhealthy relationship with setting time expectations. I think you need to focus your energies on why this is the case. Time can be your friend or your enemy.

You should ask your supervisor directly about this.

I'm not surprised that you are facing this sort of problem.
All large organisations are like this because there is nothing in it for them to make these things easy for you.

They want you to give up and go away.
When you take on any appeal such as this you need to be prepared to hassle them until they do what they say they will do in their procedures. You might even find that their procedures state that they "should" respond within a certain timescale rather than "must". There's a big difference and I'm betting they state the former. You should check this.

Other than that, I'm afraid you have to settle in for a long fight.
It took me over a month to get them to send me my PhD certificate after I'd paid for it many months prior to that. They eventually sent it in a plain brown unmarked cylinder tube rather than a formally labelled uni tube in a clearly petty response to my continually emailing them.

You need to be sure you can handle this sort of nonsense or it could very easily grind you down.