There’s wide range of anti-depressants and many different treatment strategies, including dosage variance. Metabolisation tests may be helpful in some cases to determine if a drug may behave in unintended ways in your body but that doesn’t mean the drug isn’t part of a valuable treatment strategy for you.
The process of experimenting with different treatments for mental health conditions isn’t about finding which drugs your body is most capable of metabolising, rather, it’s to find which treatment meets your mental health needs. A drug may have severe physical side effects but address your mental health symptoms so effectively that the treatment is worth it: a gene test won’t highlight that.
Unfortunately, we don’t really know why some treatments work for some people and others do not: if you’ve got dozens of options, and not enough time to test them all, then a dna test to rule out a bunch is probably going to be helpful (since you’d have to skip some anyway!) but it’s definitely not a case of, everyone should do these tests before deciding whether a treatment is right for them.
The process of experimenting with different treatments for mental health conditions isn’t about finding which drugs your body is most capable of metabolising, rather, it’s to find which treatment meets your mental health needs. A drug may have severe physical side effects but address your mental health symptoms so effectively that the treatment is worth it: a gene test won’t highlight that.
Unfortunately, we don’t really know why some treatments work for some people and others do not: if you’ve got dozens of options, and not enough time to test them all, then a dna test to rule out a bunch is probably going to be helpful (since you’d have to skip some anyway!) but it’s definitely not a case of, everyone should do these tests before deciding whether a treatment is right for them.