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For A Pessimist I’m Pretty Optimistic

Mia Rose Sarmiento

In For A Pessimist, I"m Pretty Optimistic, Mia, a writer, an artist, and a podcaster feels everything sometimes as she navigates this whirlwind of a life. Sometimes, she can be quite optimistic, and sometimes there tends to be a pessimistic cloud over her head that in most cases, refuses to leave her alone; in psychology, it"s called bipolar psychosis, but to Mia, it"s merely the story of her life; coping and living with it. She unfolds it all and everything in between as she does so with courage,

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01:15:16

S. 3 // EP. 26 ] Letting Go Of The Past

For A Pessimist I’m Pretty Optimistic ·

2025/04/23

in the season three finale, i take a look back at season three with sentiment. i also talk about letting go of the past in perspective, retrospectively.

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00:38:40

S. 3 // EP. 25 ] Touching Yourself Is An Art Form...

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2025/04/03

let's get real about intimacy.

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01:09:48

S. 3 // EP. 24 ] Divine Timing

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2025/03/27

just about two episodes away from the end of season three, episode twenty four is all about contemplations and reflections on diving timing.

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01:10:34

S. 3 // EP. 23 ] Life Is A Mess Lately But I'm So...

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2025/03/19

this is a life update of how things have been the past week. it's been a mess honestly, but being mindful of the things i am grateful for and letting go of the things i cannot control is so important.

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01:03:15

S. 3 // EP. 22 ] Overcoming The Shame Of Writing Fan...

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2025/03/12

the cat's out the bag yet again in this one, let's talk fan fiction and get real.

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01:26:33

S. 3 // EP. 21 ] Advice Sesh #2: Finding Closure...

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2025/03/05

in this episode, i'm giving my advice on finding closure after getting your heart broken. there are only so many ways heartbreak can happen, and it gets quite overwhelming as it does consuming for me sometimes. when it comes to finding closure, it isn't so far down the road and with time it comes easily. (trigger warning: brief mention of self harm)

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01:11:36

S. 3 // EP. 20 ] Success And Creativity

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2025/02/26

diving right in to episode twenty of For A Pessimist I'm Pretty Optimistic's third season, it's all about success and the journey of it, what builds it, what feels like breaking in it, and the open doors of opportunity as the dynamics of success and creativity flow. it's not easy, but it's worth it to keep going.

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01:24:47

S. 3 // EP. 19 ] Antipsychotics; The Ups, The Downs,...

For A Pessimist I’m Pretty Optimistic ·

2025/02/19

this was quite an emotional topic for me to touch on! in episode nineteen, i talk about my journey with antipsychotics that lead me to a point of decidedly quitting. (tw: psychtic experiences are uncovered in detail and may be triggering to some)

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01:29:33

S. 3 // EP. 18 ] Coping Skills For Bipolar Psychosis...

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2025/02/05

For A Pessimist I'm Pretty Optimistic is back with another mental health episode. In this one, I'm talking about coping skills for bipolar psychosis that I was able to research about and how things have been as of lately when it comes to where I am in my mental health journey. Things have been really tough when it comes to overwhelming and distressing mental disability episodes. Still, I think it's important that I remember that coping is a practice that I can confide in when I feel that

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01:46:30

S. 3 // EP. 17 ] Talking About She's Just Not Into...

For A Pessimist I’m Pretty Optimistic ·

2025/01/29

This episode is fun-packed and I'm absolutely excited to be talking about the idea of She's Just Not Into Him and how it kicked off to be an original romance novel. What started as my last ongoing fan-fiction idea, I had said goodbye to my fan-fiction era by coming into this new beginning that was this romance novel in the making which is the start of my journey as an independent author.

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00:54:36

S. 3 // EP. 16 ] Healing The Inner Child

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2025/01/22

in episode sixteen of season three, I talk about healing the inner child, this idea of the inner child and my present self colliding in some of my moments in life

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01:47:24

S. 3 // EP. 15 ] The Aroace Spectrum And The Aroace...

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2025/01/14

episode fifteen of season three brings more about the aroace spectrum and how I've resonated with it through life. celebrating my aroace visibility is so important absolutely, so i'm very excited to be delving into the second part with more aroace terms from such a useful resource; https://www.oulgbtq.org/acearo-spectrum-definitions.html. I'm also a bit emotional to talk about how being acquitted with the orientation was quite the challenge along with the play of societal things, yet it was so

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01:02:40

S. 3 // EP. 14 ] Tears, Fears, And The Years: A...

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2025/01/08

post-holiday break and respective withdrawals later, episode fourteen follows promptly about a spontaneous spark of an idea to release a side project, a self-help + personal development blog (with undertones of spirituality,) by me. what seems a bit like a dark and depressing title, isn't all that it seems when the light at the end of the tunnel isn't so far. in one of the most significant episodes of season three thus far, I introduce the origins of Tears, Fears, And The Years and how it became

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00:43:41

S. 3 // EP. 13 ] The Aroace Spectrum And The Aroace...

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2024/12/17

episode thirteen is all about the aroace spectrum as i delve into the aspects within it and how i resonate with them.

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01:28:54

S. 3 // EP. 12 ] Sobriety And Relapse, Writer...

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2024/12/10

Episode twelve of season three has finally arrived. What a whimsical blur as time has taken its flight quite quickly. About halfway into the season, already, oh wow. Here we are! In this episode, I discuss sobriety and relapse and their impact on my life, my passions and ambitions as a writer, wards, and an update on deity work when it comes to walking away from Catholicism and proudly wearing my heart on my sleeve when it comes to devotion and working with infernal and angelic realms.

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01:25:37

S. 3 // EP. 11 ] Coping With Psychosis Delusions And...

For A Pessimist I’m Pretty Optimistic ·

2024/12/04

In episode 11 of season 3, I talk about coping with psychosis delusions and how they can be quite distressing, sometimes I may not even be aware of them occurring at all. Also, I touch upon how psychosis PTSD can really feel a lot like emotionally spiraling. I also talk about breaking repetitive cycles when it comes to this mental disability; truth be told it's not easy at all! For me, it was a lot of sitting with my shadow and breaking my fear of doing so, and understanding the barriers my

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01:19:38

S. 3 // EP. 10 ] Balancing A Spiritual Life With The...

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2024/11/27

This is something I've been working to do for sometime! After sometime in the broom's closet, and revisiting the memory, from time to time, I was completely not sure how I could be able to do so. Learning about how I can has been a goal of mine since I had done an oracle card reading on myself that indicated I should be able to find a balance between both my spiritual and physical life.

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01:08:40

S. 3 // EP. 9 ] At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P....

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2024/11/19

I first got The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales when I was twenty years old, and I decided to pick it up in my bookshelf about three years later. Here is my honest review of At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft! I also share my thoughts about the passing of this cosmic horror author, and how he came into personal growth when it came to facing his past racist views and coming into a positive transformation by squashing these racial biases as a work in progress in his later years as a writer,

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00:57:24

S. 3 // EP. 8 ] Life Update #3: Depressively Crashing...

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2024/11/12

So, I had a brief manic phase and depressively crashed after what felt like a mixed episode, and I'm at a point of refusing to believe that the spur of my writing career is based off the manic impulse to create something. I'm coming to understand how I feel in this podcast episode, when it comes to the aftermath of yet another bipolar psychosis episode, and to be honest, I feel quite broken and melancholy. I am hoping to reach a point of acceptance and continuing where I left off, as frustrating and

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01:14:48

S. 3 // EP. 7 ] Floraline Blackheart Talks #6:...

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2024/10/30

Dreamwalking is basically when someone is conscious and awake, yet is in a state between awake and asleep in which dreams can stream through somewhere in the spiritual matrix, and projected by the mind in vibrance and varying intensities. I was able to notice I could dream walk at around nineteen/twenty. Dreamwalking can sometimes be receiving dreams in a non-linear manner, so I hope folks know I am doing my best to explain it from the physical world!

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