Aasra Clinic

Parusha Kallu 13 months ago

Dr. Lakshmi Swetha Gullapalli is a wonderful person, patient listner and helps the patient understand their problems, own them and assure them that she can help them if they are willing to work on themselves. I would definately recommend her.

Tahura 16-564 20 months ago

Dr.farheen psychiatrist is brilliant doctor. She helped me with my anxiety and depression she is very professional. I suggest people go for her as she is very optimistic kind encouraging and she takes her patient's seriously. She gives time to each one of her patient.

Care By Jay 36 months ago

I have been reading a lot of negative comments and decided to write a genuine review about my experience. Before coming to Dr.Swetha, I have been to many psychiatrists in Delhi and Hyderabad. Somehow I never trusted them as put me on unnecessary medications. But with Dr. Swetha it was a different experience. While many failed to diagnose the behavioural disorders that I had and just focused on my depression part, Dr.Swetha also focused on my behavioural issues along with my depression. She never put me on unnecessary high doses, she started with low and gradually made changes in my prescription to see what works for me. With mental illness it takes time, you can’t expect fast track results. The key is to be patient and trust your doctor. They know what they are doing. I have seen few people mentioning that the doctor doesn’t give a lot of time, its true because you are going for a consultation. The consultations usually last 10-15 mins and I guess its enough to start you on a medication. For the therapy to work the brain must stabilise itself, else all the therapy that you get would just fly over your head, but Dr.Swetha also gives therapy sessions which last long where she has a lengthy dialogue with her patients for almost an hour. Few more mentioned that the doctor has asked them to visit her weekly. I guess maybe the doctor would have felt that there was a need for a weekly visits as his problem might be demanding it. For me it was varying there were times where I met her twice a month but there were also times where I didn’t meet her for 3 months because she felt it was not necessary. When the psychiatrist starts with a medication she wants to make sure that it is working right and is not giving you any side effects, so at the beginning they might ask you to visit more to know what works and what doesn’t for you, but when they get to know what works for you they might put you on that medication for longer periods. There was this one visit where I was her last patient for the day and the doctor had to leave after my appointment but I was stuck in traffic and was late by 20 mins but Dr.Swetha waited patiently for me. She could have asked me to come some other day but she did pull out time and stayed a bit longer to meet me. Overall it has been a very good experience so far with the doctor. I would argue everyone not to jump to conclusions and trust your psychiatrist. They know what to do and they are trained to do this.

P.S: Sometimes doctors can be yawning as we all know that they have very tight schedules, but its not that they are not attentive. It might look that they are not attentive to you, but its just that she might be analysing/making notes/thinking about the right medication to put you on. Trust me, she has got an impressive memory. She remembered about my diagnosis even when I went to her after 3 months. All I can say she does a very good job as a psychiatrist.