Aug 30, 2026 · 28 min · 10 segments
Marisa Prietto of alt-rock band Bizou joins Scream Therapy host Jason Schreurs to talk about balancing life commitments like jobs and relationships with being in a band. Marisa explains the importance…
Marissa PrietoGuest
Jason SchreursHost
I've played in a number of touring projects and going back, you know, the last, I want to say, 10, 11 years, starting in a band called Wax Idols.
I've been maintaining multiple projects for over a decade and also, you know, balancing that with just working, you know, any number of normal jobs, the demands that go along with that, as well as being a person who suffers from intermittent bouts of, I want to say, like generalized anxiety, panic attacks, major depression, the ups and downs get accentuated.
in the midst of trying to, you know, I guess just spin so many plates in the air at the same time.
And people that are the most creative and want to do the most things often have challenges.
It's kind of a good thing and a bad thing in a sense that like, it really drives people to do things and they want to kind of overcome whatever they're dealing with.
But at the same time, it's a struggle every day to even like, you know, if you're feeling super depressed, how do you go and pick up the guitar?
I mean, there's like definitely been times where, you know, I feel like there's like a level of there's a level of depression where you're kind of almost I don't know if this is the good way to put it, but like you're almost in a sweet spot for creativity because you're just bummed enough to like want to reflect, but not so depressed that you're so flat you don't even want to.
do anything like super anhedonic and I feel like the last time that I felt like I needed to just enter therapy was when I was um just like looking at my base and I just got like nauseated just looking at it like I don't want to even do that and it bummed me out so badly that I was like okay you know I think I need like this is like beyond the level of like where it's manageable you know
yeah And you've been around all the musicians and from your perspective, how have they been coping with it? And is it something that you've learned from them about, you know, maybe this is a way that I can, you know, reset or what are the tactics that people can use when they want to play music, but they are dealing with these things?
as many musicians as you have, like everybody is sort of like kind of entering at their own level of what they're capable of doing coping wise.
I think the best thing for all of us, like at least what I've experienced is that just the act of like being forced to like come together to do a common project, even if, you know, even if the relationships are conflictual at the time or everybody's busy and stressed, it's like, I feel like at the end of practice, for instance, I do feel better.
I feel like I needed that, you know, no matter like how much of a slog it was to get from point A to point B or like, oh my God, my body feels like it weighs a million pounds.
But I think just the process of collectively having to, maybe just even have this like forced socialization together when I think a lot of our impulse might be to isolate.
I know mine is, you know, when I'm feeling depressed, I just kind of want to go lock myself in a room for like as long as it takes to not feel that way.
But having this like in place where it's not a negotiation, you just have to show up.
I've played in a number of touring projects and going back, you know, the last, I want to say, 10, 11 years, starting in a band called Wax Idols.
I've been maintaining multiple projects for over a decade and also, you know, balancing that with just working, you know, any number of normal jobs, the demands that go along with that, as well as being a person who suffers from intermittent bouts of, I want to say, like generalized anxiety, panic attacks, major depression, the ups and downs get accentuated.
in the midst of trying to, you know, I guess just spin so many plates in the air at the same time.
And people that are the most creative and want to do the most things often have challenges.
It's kind of a good thing and a bad thing in a sense that like, it really drives people to do things and they want to kind of overcome whatever they're dealing with.
But at the same time, it's a struggle every day to even like, you know, if you're feeling super depressed, how do you go and pick up the guitar?
I mean, there's like definitely been times where, you know, I feel like there's like a level of there's a level of depression where you're kind of almost I don't know if this is the good way to put it, but like you're almost in a sweet spot for creativity because you're just bummed enough to like want to reflect, but not so depressed that you're so flat you don't even want to.
do anything like super anhedonic and I feel like the last time that I felt like I needed to just enter therapy was when I was um just like looking at my base and I just got like nauseated just looking at it like I don't want to even do that and it bummed me out so badly that I was like okay you know I think I need like this is like beyond the level of like where it's manageable you know
yeah And you've been around all the musicians and from your perspective, how have they been coping with it? And is it something that you've learned from them about, you know, maybe this is a way that I can, you know, reset or what are the tactics that people can use when they want to play music, but they are dealing with these things?
as many musicians as you have, like everybody is sort of like kind of entering at their own level of what they're capable of doing coping wise.
I think the best thing for all of us, like at least what I've experienced is that just the act of like being forced to like come together to do a common project, even if, you know, even if the relationships are conflictual at the time or everybody's busy and stressed, it's like, I feel like at the end of practice, for instance, I do feel better.
I feel like I needed that, you know, no matter like how much of a slog it was to get from point A to point B or like, oh my God, my body feels like it weighs a million pounds.
But I think just the process of collectively having to, maybe just even have this like forced socialization together when I think a lot of our impulse might be to isolate.
I know mine is, you know, when I'm feeling depressed, I just kind of want to go lock myself in a room for like as long as it takes to not feel that way.
But having this like in place where it's not a negotiation, you just have to show up.
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