For A Pessimist I’m Pretty Optimistic

Mia's treatment journey began just early this year, as she finally set her skepticism aside and sought treatment for her bipolar psychosis. Generally defined, bipolar psychosis is: a symptom of bipolar disorder that occurs when someone experiences a loss of contact with reality and is unable to distinguish between what is real and what is imagined. She delves into talking about living with bipolar psychosis, and how her healing journey has panned out.

episode two is heavy as Mia opens up about where life truly was growing up as a writer with undiagnosed bipolar disorder and psychosis. she admits that life no longer felt the same as it once was so bittersweetly and how Mia was left with no choice but to retell her narrative in the best way after periods of severe dissociation. with surviving bipolar psychosis, appeared the opportunity to take back the narrative she lost before her treatment journey, and she does so with courage and coffee anxiety.

Kicking off season 3 of For A Pessimist I'm Pretty Optimistic, Mia deep dives into her journey writing horror in this spooky-wise first episode. She talks about the first time she wrote horror, and felt the inseparable inspiration to do so. She also talks about the countless horror spinoffs she wrote over the years and through the foundational time of her writing path; writing in the fan-fiction genre on Wattpad. She also shares wisdom with other writers who might want to start writing horror too!

Season 3 continues, and Mia is in the process of writing her first romance novel and her first contemporary poetry book to be published as an indie-author. She reminisces about fangirling, and how different she feels from that past participle of herself. Mia surely felt older, when manic depression and bouts of psychosis made its way into her life so chaotically it left her unable to cope. It left her unable to connect with what she loved to do for months, until she learned to love herself again, in turn learning to love writing like it was yesterday. She rambles about season 3’s direction a lot in this introductory episode.

in this episode I talk about shaving my head and why I shave my head.

in episode twenty of season two, I open up about what it's like being aromantic, the trials and tribulations of coming into the fore of aromanticism, and what it's like to own it and come to self acceptance about it. I also talk about crying and why it's important.

in this episode, I'm doing a life update. and in all honesty, here I am reaching yet another rocky point in life, facing truths that come into the fore that is implementing self discipline especially when it comes to careless/rash decisions. I also talk about what motivates me on the other side of things, and why shadow work builds me to be a brave and strong person when it comes to facing traumas and finding closure to them.

in this episode, I delve into everything about free writing, the basics and the how-to's. from what it takes, to free flow, to the motivation and the drive, to writing without stopping or faltering, and welp, everything else, simultaneously, nothing at all. i think it's important to keep going, of upmost importance.