Bryce Gosney, MSN, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Supervised by Neal Adams, MD
There are a lot of things challenging us for our time and attention. We feel angry and alone after viewing social media designed to make us feel angry and alone. We feel anxiety due to ever increasing demands for our performance as employees, as parents, and as partners in busy relationships. We feel depression when these demands become too much for us to bear. I can only imagine what it’s like to be a child or young person growing up in this environment. The constant dopamine rush of Tik-Tok, the pressure to swipe and like posts at all hours. Competition in all elements of young life has skyrocketed. All these increased demands are new and on top of the demands that we had on us as children. There are still 24 hours in a day, so these demands have taken the place of healthy coping mechanisms such as sleep, healthy exercise, and playing with friends.
As a US Marine Corps veteran, with 9 years of service including two combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have leadership experience in teaching young people how to cope with stressors and develop healthy habits as the foundation of their mental health. It is an underappreciated fact about US Marine “combat mindset” training that mental toughness, resiliency, and healthy coping mechanisms are the bedrock of our readiness, and is what makes US Marines so effective. Bend but don’t break. Well now the battlefield is replaced by the world full of stress and distractions, but the lessons about coping, mental resiliency, and healthy lifestyle habits remain unchanged.
My approach to psychiatry is that gentle use of psychiatric medications can be the gateway to the goal of a positive and resilient mental health outlook. However, this goal is made much easier to reach if you have self-control over the 4 Pillars of a Healthy Mind: at least 7 hours of sleep, healthy food to fuel the mind, developing friendships, and strengthening exercise. These 4 Pillars seem like a “no-brainer”, and if it were that easy than we would all do them. I will provide encouragement and accountability to make progress on these four pillars, because true happiness is difficult to achieve without these things.
By selecting me as your Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, you can expect responsible and prudent medication selections in accordance with peer-reviewed guidelines as well as encouragement and accountability on your journey towards health and happiness. My goal isn’t to keep you or your young family member coming back for medications for years, but rather to support you for about a year until your new life grows beyond a need for medications.
I created Good Day Psychiatry to be a safe place where responsible medications can be combined with encouragement and leadership to achieve a healthy and happy life for all of my patients, young and old. I believe that the solution to all of our problems, our inner strength and resiliency, is already inside all of us, and I am happy to help you on your journey.