Description: Looking For an Experienced Psychiatrist in Menlo Park California? Dr. Svetlana Bonner Specializes in Anxiety, Depression, ADD, Relationships, Marriage Counseling, Borderline Personality Disorder and Psychoanalysis.
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Anxiety, loneliness, and pain can powerfully disrupt the well-being and the capacity to function, even in the strongest and most adapted people. Which also means that it is often hard to ask for help, however qualified. It is not unusual for people to struggle for years before coming to a professional. Conversations with friends get exhausted, over-the-counter “natural” remedies do not remedy enough, and yet it is still somehow embarrassing to pick up the phone and ask even a very qualified stranger to lis
Before I became a psychiatrist, I worked as an anesthesiologist in critical care. That experience taught me how medications work in real situations and real people, rather than in theory or textbooks. I also learned to pay attention to the many ways in which people express distress. During the subsequent training in psychiatry and psychoanalysis I was able to translate that knowledge into a way of talking to patients that promotes psychological strength and improves important relationships in their lives. I