What We Treat · Burnout

Burnout, treated as a medical condition

Exhaustion that sleep no longer repairs. A sharp mind that will not start. Burnout is not a weakness and not a phase: it is a medical condition, and it rarely travels alone. We treat it one client at a time, in a private residence on Lake Lugano, with a psychiatrist leading your care and our own Swiss clinic behind every decision.

How it shows itself
  • Exhaustion no holiday resolves
  • Distance from work you once loved
  • Sleep that breaks at three in the morning
  • Performance carried by willpower alone
What we look for first
  • Depression and anxiety, ruled in or out
  • Thyroid, blood count, vitamins, hormones
  • Sleep, alcohol and medication, honestly
  • The life that produced the collapse
How we treat it
  • One psychiatrist, leading personally
  • Psychotherapy, one to one
  • Medication only where it earns its place
  • A return designed, not improvised

The people who burn out are almost never the weak ones. They are the ones who kept going.

First, the diagnosis behind the diagnosis

Burnout is a description of a collapse, not an explanation of it. Under the same word we regularly find major depression, an anxiety disorder, a sleep disorder, a thyroid that gave up quietly, or a dependence that began as a coping strategy. In two days, our own clinic completes the full picture: psychiatric assessment, laboratory, cardiology, imaging where indicated. Treatment starts from what is actually wrong, not from the word you arrived with.

Then, treatment built around one life

There is no group timetable to join. Your programme is built around one person: psychotherapy one to one, medical treatment of what the assessment actually found, sleep restored as a clinical priority, movement and nutrition rebuilt around your day. Clinical responsibility sits with Dr. med. Jonas Montagna, FMH specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, and your record stays in Switzerland, under Swiss medical secrecy.

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