What We Treat · Sleep

Sleep, treated as medicine

Nights that end at three. Mornings that begin already tired. Sleep is not a luxury to be reclaimed by discipline; it is a medical function, and when it fails there is a reason. We look for the reason, one client at a time, with a psychiatrist in clinical charge, our own Swiss clinic, and a residence built around rest.

How it shows itself
  • Falling asleep late, waking early, or both
  • A tiredness the day never repairs
  • Concentration and mood wearing thin
  • Sleep chased with alcohol or pills
What we look for first
  • Apnoea, thyroid, pain, hormones
  • Depression and anxiety, ruled in or out
  • Alcohol, caffeine and medication, honestly
  • The day that is producing the night
How we treat it
  • One psychiatrist, leading personally
  • Sleep therapy, one to one, without dependence
  • Medication reviewed, not accumulated
  • Rhythm rebuilt: light, movement, timing

Nobody has ever willed themselves to sleep. Treatment is what happens instead.

First, why sleep fails

Insomnia is a symptom before it is a diagnosis. Behind it we regularly find sleep apnoea, a thyroid out of range, chronic pain, depression or anxiety, or a dependence on the very substances taken in order to sleep. Our own clinic completes the picture: laboratory, cardiology, sleep assessment, the full history of what has been tried. Treatment starts from the cause, not from the symptom.

Then, sleep rebuilt, not sedated

The aim is sleep that returns on its own, not sleep that arrives on prescription. Your programme is built around one person: cognitive and behavioural work on sleep, one to one; medication withdrawn or reset where it has become part of the problem; daylight, movement and meal timing rebuilt around a rhythm that holds when you go home. 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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