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.

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