I finished my PhD last June and quit academia to run my own company. It is unglamourous but it pays enough to live on (just) and most importantly I have freedom from the tyranny of other people telling me what to do.
Alongside this, I have continued to study, broadening my skills in related subjects.
I doubt I will ever take a permanent job or re-enter academia (turned down two postdocs which were offered to me) but I do harbour ambitions to kick start a tech company hence my continued studying. The thought of taking either permanent employment or postdoc work makes me feel physically sick.

I will help if you put me out of my misery. Did you decide between Psychology, Law, International Fashion and Management in the end as per your previous posts? No wonder you are struggling with creating a presentation. I am on tenterhooks and I literally cannot sleep without knowing what choice you made.

I am not one for beating around the bush so here is my analysis. Believe it or not the following is an attempt to help you.

First and foremost stop using Twitter, Facebook and any other "social media" tool. They are all, without exception complete and utter poison. Nobody has anything useful to say and you can't trust anything you see there.

Secondly, stop comparing yourself to others. By definition, absolutely nobody is on the same path as you. Comparing yourself with others is guaranteed to cause you problems. Those darling, happy clappy superstars are going to have to stand on their own two feet one day and no amount of cake, support and partying will make that any more pleasant. In other words, they will have to tread the path you are on at some stage. They cannot avoid it. They are BEHIND you in this regard. You mistakenly think they are ahead of you.

Thirdly, stop using the phrase "superstar" to describe other people. There is no such thing as a superstar, a hero or whatever other word you want to throw around. Humans use these words as excuses for their own shortcomings. Isaac Newton and Einstein achieved brilliance but they were not superstars so I can guarantee these people you are referring to are not either. Have any of them cured cancer or any other major disease yet? Have they changed the world by saving millions of lives? Unless the answer to those questions is Yes, they are nothing more than ordinary academics. Perhaps they are very good but they are not superstars by any stretch of the imagination.

Fourthly, you need to address your fundamental problem of severe neediness. Stop looking to others to provide your mental stability and focus on doing it yourself.

Finally, find out why you are not personally satisfied with your own results. This should be a period of your life where you emerge as an independent researcher, a period of self discovery and wakening ultimately revealing a lot about who you really are. Instead of celebrating this you seem stuck in undergraduate dependency mode.

That's the same link you gave above but oddly it is now working. I might have made a mistake copying the link.
I make these mistakes more often than I used to. I am getting old :-)

I would imagine that it may be possible to get an extension if you talk to the postgrad centre.
Sadly the striking lecturers have decided that completing students and final year undergraduates are legitimate targets in their battle with the university authorities. The impact on the immediate careers of both could be utterly ruinous for good students aiming at 1st and 2:1 levels. Of course failing students back the strikes because they are likely to get blanket passes in the exams if any are cancelled (which is a distinct possibility).
You have been caught in the middle of this sandwich of nonsense.
My daughter has been caught up in this as well as a final year undergrad. Fortunately only one of her lecturers was selfish enough to deliberately sabotage her future so she will be fine.