It Has Just Dawned On Me That The Suffering I

It has just dawned on me that the suffering I have endured over the past 6 years is possibly due to severe menopause.
Chronic fatigue, severe insomnia, weight gain, mood swings, depression, extreme cramping and back pain, uncontrollable outburst of crying, complete lack of motivation, incontinence, low sex drive, hot flashes so bad I have to change my sheets or sleep on towels. They would wake me up 4 - 6 times a night.
This is just the beginning. I have not only been diagnosed or treated for everything but menopause. This unfortunate experience has caused me to be labeled. Mistreated in hospitals. Placed on medication for depression when none of it worked. I am NOT a depressed person. I do not suffer from depression. How is it that the medical faculty and industry could aallow a woman to go so long in a state of suffering without ever considering menopause to be the problem? What is wrong with our system that it takes me to figure out what is truly going on with my body? I am beyond exhausted and humiliated after enduring countless experiences with Drs who assumed I had a mental disorder when in fact I was simply going through menopause.
My mother told me she heard voices. Her menopause was 8 years of hell. She actually thought she was dying at times! Her exact words. Why are doctors not more informed? How many more women are there like me out there who are wrongfully diagnosed and how do we stop this from happening?