By Julie Brownley, MD, PhD Founder, Psychiatry for Women You’re getting everything done. Work. Partners, dogs, cats, kids, whatever. Logistics. All the random invisible things that somehow end up being your responsibility. From the outside, you look fine. More than fine, honestly. But internally there’s this low-grade sense of… I don’t know how much longer I can keep doing this. Or: I feel like I might just… drop the ball on everything. I see this all the time. And what’s interesting is that...

By Julie Brownley, MD, PhD Founder, Psychiatry for Women The Limits of Genetic Testing for Antidepressants and Other Psychiatric Medications I get asked about genetic testing for antidepressants and psychiatric medications all the time. Usually, the question is: “Can I do a test to find out which medication will work best for me?” The short answer? Nope. What Genetic Testing Actually Measures Most pharmacogenetic tests used in psychiatry are looking at liver enzymes. Specifically, how your...

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