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Fiona Buckley: 'I thought I was the one who was failing, that it was my fault I couldn’t cope with the workload'

Fiona Buckley was once a corporate high-flier. She spent 16 years in that sector, rising to the position of vice president of professional services for a global tech company.

While working in one such role, she began to experience mental and physical health issues. “I had this constant cloud of feeling overwhelmed,” says the now 42-year-old who lives in Dublin. “I was stressed from the moment I got up to the moment I went to bed every day. I had frequent headaches, insomnia and anxiety. The slightest thing would irritate me. I wasn’t functioning.”