To ask if you have bad PMT moods how do you deal with it? It's ruining my life.

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Any tips? It is ruining my life & relationships. I am 40 and the run up to my period starting it is hell for everyone, particularly Dh. I become paranoid, hysterical and irrational, not to mention spotty. Getting far worse as I age. It's really getting me down.

I track my cycles and therefore have an idea of when I'm due so if I start to feel emotional, ratty or paranoid then it helps that I can see when I'm due as the change in mood starts and ends like clockwork so I've an idea of how long it will last and I figure that if I still feel this way by x then I know it's something else. It helps me hold fire for the most part when i want to lose the rag/ cry uncontrollably but at the very least it helps me explain to dh what's happening because the brain fog is awful. I just end up gaslighting myself and can't explain anything.