Just sharing this information from the word go would be useful.
However, I am aware that if it were not for my tutor "encouraging" me to push through the hurdles, I could have chosen to postpone the completion of my course many times.
The dissertation process is even worse 'coz one does not have the momentum created by the participation in discussion with the other students ... yet life continue to happen around us ...often appearing as challenges to be overcome and sometimes even reasons/justification to be stopped.
This is not to say that we should never pause to rest/heal/restore/rejuvinat/repackage etc etc .. depending on the situation. sometimes this is exactly what we need ... and if we are in touch with ourselves .. and with others (the supervisor being at least part of this support group) we can be guided to make the appropriate choices.