As far as my MIL is concerned menopause symptoms are a figment of people's imagination, but then again she also thinks depression is all in your mind and you should just get over it. From what I can gather she is going through menopause, her main symptom is that her memory is getting worse.

I remember my mother going through it in her 50's, I was about 17/18. Life went awful for her, her normal paranoia got worse and she ended up quitting her job in a real strange way, swearing that she had not quit, but threatened to (long story, she is a total drama queen). From what I can gather my mother had undiagnosed depression and other issues, combine that with menopause and she was not fun to be around.