That's amazing. Well done. If you need someone to speak with first hand experience of how someone with peri menopausal anxiety/depression got sent down totally the wrong (and potentially life damaging) path by GPs, then I would love to be involved and help.
My GPs (with the best of intentions, but hopelessly ignorant) involved me with the crisis team, a psychiatrist, counselling. At one point electro convulsive therapy was even touted, WTF??? I dread to think how much their ignorance cost the NHS.
My long and we'll documented history of severe PMS and PND was totally ignored and then dimissed out of hand by GPs. They refused to accept my problem could be hormonal. It was only after doing my own research and the advice and support from this wonderful place that I found my way to Prof Studd's door, and within a matter of weeks was well on the road to recovery. He was both furious and despairing at how I had been treated by the NHS and told me he saw hundreds of women each year who had suffered the same horrific experiences.
