When Success Hurts: How Trauma Hides Behind Overachievement and Insomnia in Bicultural High-Performers

When Success Hurts: How Trauma Hides Behind Overachievement and Insomnia in Bicultural High-Performers

Patria Alexander, MSN, RN
Published on: 31/10/2025

You’re successful. So why can’t you sleep?⠀⠀ If you grew up between cultures, you probably learned to adapt. To perform. To outwork fear.⠀ But that 3am restlessness? That “never enough” loop in your head? That’s not just ambition.⠀ It might be your nervous system still running from something.

Adult Mental Health
Migration Stress and the Immigrant Psyche

Migration Stress and the Immigrant Psyche

Patria Alexander, MSN, RN
Published on: 02/09/2025

Migration isn’t just about paperwork and flights. It’s about the invisible grief that follows you, even after the bags are unpacked. You may have chosen to leave, but even chosen departures come with heartache.

Adult Mental HealthChild and Adolescents Mental Health
The Inheritance: How Intergenerational Trauma and Epigenetics Shape Mental Health in Diasporic Bodies

The Inheritance: How Intergenerational Trauma and Epigenetics Shape Mental Health in Diasporic Bodies

Patria Alexander, MSN, RN
Published on: 05/08/2025

Discover how ancestral trauma lives in the body through epigenetics and inherited nervous system responses—and how culturally attuned psychiatry can help us heal what our grandmothers were never allowed to speak.

Adult Mental HealthChild and Adolescents Mental Health
The Stories We Carry Across Oceans: Psychiatry, Migration, and the Invisible Psyche

The Stories We Carry Across Oceans: Psychiatry, Migration, and the Invisible Psyche

Patria Alexander, MSN, RN
Published on: 24/07/2025

Explore how migration, intergenerational trauma, and cultural identity shape the psyche. A soulful, psychiatric reflection on the stories we carry across oceans—and how they impact mental health.

Adult Mental Health