I have CPTSD,MDD, ANXIETY,SUCIDAL IDIATION, and EATING DISORTER. I am working on my issues but some days can be very difficult. On top of my mental problems I have some very serious Physical problems, with 3 bad heart valves I was born with, congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, COPD, arthritis, and a few others. I take so many meds that I feel I am a pharmacy for my self. I have trouble going to sleep, staying asleep, and sleeping long enough for my body to at least feel like I have slept, so I can get through the day. My husband, and brother think I should be wonder woman, and don't acknowledge any of my mental, or physical limitations. The only time that they do is when I have a migraine. My thought, or should I say question, is do any of y'all have problems like this, if so how do you make them understand any of it. As far as my CPTSD, I have flashbacks, trouble sleeping, concertrating, remembering things, anxiety, nighmeres, and a constant daily trigger, from about 7am, to about 8 pm, my oldest brother, whom was one of my abusers in my young life, am I am constantly on guard. He is also a alcoholic, he drinks every day, and if my husband, and I would allow it, he would drink from early morning till he went to bed, but we told him no drinking before noon, and his drinking is another trigger for me. Both my parents drank up to the day they passed away. Do any of you older CPTSD people have triggers living with you? If so how do you deal with it? How do you make the ppl you live with understand all that is going on with you if they won't listen. And by the way, they hardly help me do anything.