((rhaps))) I too suffer from acute PMDD, and can get some nasty flashbacks during that time of month (which is right now for me)...one of the things I did for some time was keep a daily planner journal for my symptoms to track my worst times..it's really hard to deal with these feelings, but the thing I do is stay in this moment, remind myself that it's only a horrible, albeit traumatic memory, and will eventually pass (or this feeling will pass), they always do...I refocus my mind somewhere....anything to divert, and start putting positive things in myhead...even if it is the same thing over and over....I'm safe, I'm ok, it's just a memory, a feeling, I'm safe, I'm ok, I am good, I am strong, I am getting through this...on & on...

I changed a lot of things: my diet, exercise, things I watch, or do during that time, as well as the b-complex, it works wonders (going back on that myself)-and I always journal out what I feel when I feel this way...no sense letting it stay in my noggin, it's like poison, gotta get it out!!!

((rhaps)) you will get through this, the PMDD is really horrible, and I think when we get in our late 30s & early 40s it rears it's ugly head (one last hoorah!! before our reproductive cycles end).

Just know you are not alone!!! hugs, Lisa