For Mental Health Awareness Week, Legal Week has invited law firm partners to talk about how mental health issues have impacted their careers and the coping strategies they have adopted. Here, Clifford Chance banking partner Karen Hodson discusses how she manages her depression

I remember, as a junior partner, being in a client meeting and five minutes before the meeting was due to start, I was in the ladies sobbing my heart out. I fixed my makeup, went back in there and I would hope no one in the room had any inkling that anything was wrong.