My hunch is that a lot of the vague “fatigue, depression, anxiety attacks, and chronic pain” symptoms women experience and often get diagnosed as fibromyalgia are due to improper sleep.
I was amazed to read that sleep has an amplifying effect on all of these symptoms, and these symptoms of course cause sleepiness in turn. Plus, there does seem to be a general consensus in society that women are inadequate if they can’t function on little sleep, because of the demands of motherhood.
ack... fat fingers... I meant SLEEPLESSNESS not sleepiness. Lack of sleep may be what causes those symptoms.