I always tell folks, ESPECIALLY WOMAN, if you get diagnosed with depression/anxiety, get thyroid and pituatary checked. These disorders although rare often go undiagnosed/misdiagnosed for a decade or more. In fact autoposies show many people die with pituatary tumors and never know it.
And men should get their testosterone checked. I had all sorts of weird symptoms going on that my primary care(s) just couldnt seem to figure out. So, I did what any good person with access to google does and put all the symptoms into google and low T came up as an extremely likely candidate.
So, I went to the doctor and asked to have it checked. They didnt want to. But they did since it was at the VA and they really couldnt refuse it without me making it super annoying for them. And guess what? Low T. The next problem was getting them to treat it. After being accused of abusing anabolic steroids (which I've never used never mind abused) they finally settled on a firm "no, we wont help you." Why? because one of the 3 testosterone blood tests they ran was like 5 points higher than the minimum to get treated. Turns out they kept testing me till they got the result they wanted, which was like 1 or 2% over the number that triggers treatment. Keep in mind I'm in my mid 30's at this time.
Anyway, I attempted to use a non VA primary care. They were just as retarded about it and implied that I might be doing something to get low T results. Those additional tests at my PC costed me a shit ton of money as it was all out of pocket also.
So, off to mens health I went. When I told them the story and gave them all the labs they couldnt believe how many doctors (I think 3 PC's and 1 endoconologist ) failed/refused to treat it.
It's not hard to explain why I don't trust modern doctors. I almost died in 2008 due to an insane and negligent misdiagnosis, they refused to help with my hormone issue and just this summer they changed my blood pressure medication which almost put me into cardiac arrest. Came about a inch from dying on that one.
MD's? PhDs? In many cases they arent worth the paper they are written on.