What We Treat · Depression

Depression, treated one life at a time

The grey that will not lift. Decisions that once took seconds and now take days. Depression is common; the way we treat it is not. One client at a time, a psychiatrist in clinical charge, a full medical work-up in our own Swiss clinic, and a private residence where treatment fits your life instead of a ward's timetable.

How it shows itself
  • Interest gone from things you chose
  • Sleep and appetite out of order
  • Guilt that arrives without a cause
  • Thinking slowed to a crawl
What we look for first
  • The body: thyroid, inflammation, deficiencies
  • Bipolarity, before any antidepressant
  • Alcohol and medication, honestly
  • Sleep, examined as medicine
How we treat it
  • One psychiatrist, leading personally
  • Psychotherapy, one to one
  • Medication chosen with you, not for you
  • Continuum when you return home

Depression lies about you, to you. The first task of treatment is that you stop negotiating with it alone.

First, the whole picture

Half of good psychiatry is good medicine. Before treatment begins, our own clinic looks at everything that can wear depression as a mask or make it worse: laboratory and hormones, cardiology, sleep, alcohol and the full medication history. The psychiatric assessment then has something solid to stand on, and so does every decision that follows it.

Then, treatment with one name on it

You will not be handed to a rota. Clinical responsibility sits with Dr. med. Jonas Montagna, FMH specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, and the programme is built around one person: psychotherapy one to one, medication reviewed rather than accumulated, days given structure, light and movement, and a written plan for the months after. Your record stays in Switzerland, under Swiss medical secrecy.

Medical Center Sorengo · Psychiatry

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