Sarah Waylett
- An Accenture worker quit her job last year due to chronic stress.
- She said that the burnout affected her physical and mental health.
- Many women reported the same burnout symptoms in a recent study.
Sarah Waylett, 46, was a single mom with two small children when the pandemic hit in early 2020. That, on top of a high-pressure job, caused her mental health symptoms to progress into physical pain, she told Insider.
"I was a ghost of myself," she said.
She had been working at IT services and consulting firm Accenture for 15 years at that point, starting in consulting and eventually moving up to leading teams in finance and risk, she said.