Dr. Anita Sudan Varma, MD

She helped me monitor my emotions moving oversea dealing with ex death, car accidents, family trauma, racism, depression, anxiety, emotion regulation, She is great person, try's her best I appreciate her help. I've been seeing her over two years now and my family. I hope she never gives up and keeps doing good, has good practice balance thus far

Okay, so she’s the only psychiatrist at V.&S. who’ll see adults. “AS” an adult, who knows which medications have helped over the last 35 years, as well as the ones that have almost cost me my life, THIS lady decided AGAINST reading over the questionnaire that SHE MADE ME FILL OUT, and then went on to give me a mood stabilizer my questionnaire clearly stated I was highly sensitive to in a bad way, and then ORDERED ME to QUIT TAKING A BENZODIAZEPINE I HAVE BEEN TAKING FOR CLOSE TO 30 YEARS? The mood stabilizer in question ACTUALLY CAUSES MAJOR PANIC, and I suffer from PANIC DISORDER. I told her that if she truly wanted me to discontinue the one medication that helped me from taking my life, I would need her help, as I’ve taken them for so long I would more than likely need to be admitted into inpatient care. This so-called doctor told me to just break the left over pills I’d been prescribed by a doctor I no longer see, and I should be just fine… HUH??? I FIRED THAT PHYSICIAN, AND MY… PHARMACIST WAS WAITING FOR ME TO TURN THOSE LEFT OVER BENZODIAZEPINES IN TO BE DESTROYED, AS IT IS TOTALLY ILLEGAL TO TAKE THAT TYPE IF MEDICATION WHEN ITS BEEN 3 MINTHS SINCE I RECEIVED A ONE MONTH SUPPLY!! It is my opinion that Dr. Varma learns Tennessee prescribing laws, learns how to HELP the people coming to her FOR help, instead of brushing this off and making excuses simply in order to give herself an “out”. She’s THE most in compassionate psychiatrist I think I’ve ever met. Dr. Varma, you have so very much to learn about this profession. I scored over a 50 on your “quiz”, and you dismissed my life as easily as you would a piece of bruised fruit at Kroger. SHAME ON YOU! I’m now paying one of the top ten rated psychiatrists in the city, and he IMMEDIATELY admitted me inpatient after he saw what you had done. Again, you should be extremely ashamed,!& please understand that you have earned a call to Nashville. So, try and wriggle out. I have photos of each page I filled out, and that’s in my patient file my psychiatrist will be turning over for me.

I've seen Varma for a while but recently her whole demeanor has changed. I asked her why I have to wait over an hour on my appointment days and she got mad at me. She said the front desk workers don't know what they are doing and she lied to me twice about what time she gets there. I told her I was just curious why such a long wait even if there's only a couple of people there ..She told me if I wasn't happy I can go somewhere else. Scolding me out of her office and down the hall humiliating me. I left with anxiety and depression that I shouldn't have gotten from any kind of Dr. I will continue to write reviews and notify the BBB along with the AMA. I've heard about how she treated some of her other patients and it's sad.

Try to get an early appointment so you can leave before lunch. Always late runs about an hour past appt time. Good listener my nerves are so spent by the time I get called back I am exhausted

This was quite an experience.I waited two hours and fifteen minutes in the office; with hyperactive children bouncing all around me.I got 23 minutes for my initial visit and, at one point, she flared her eyes and said, "Wow"...then asked me what I thought I needed for treatment of depression.This is a woman who performs electroconvulsive therapy. Amazing!In the end, she gave me a script for 10mg of Lexapro. She looked at me and said, "You look functional". My veterinarian could have done this for me...