Bob, well said: I think a lot of doctors, unfortunately, just ASSUME women are impossible puzzles, and they stop there. They're often quicker to blame hormones than to engage in any critical thinking and consider that a female patient might have the exact same condition that a male patient might have.

In other words, on the one hand, we're screwed because the research has done a disservice to us for so long that we don't have a good grasp on how different conditions manifest uniquely among female patients... but on the other, even when our issues are actually straightforward and have nothing whatsoever to do with endocrinology or gender, they get neglected because it's simply ASSUMED these are "female problems" (mental or otherwise). There's no winning.