LouiseBarnett
LIVING WELL WITH
BIPOLAR DISORDER
STARTS HERE
Louise is an Author, Podcaster, Jay Shetty-certified Life Coach, and Mental Health Advocate who's turned her lived experience into a movement.
Diagnosed with Bipolar I after years of manic highs, crushing lows, addiction, and misdiagnosis, Louise now shares the stories most people are afraid to tell. Sober since 2021, she brings humor, vulnerability, and an unapologetically honest perspective to mental health advocacy.
Today, she's making waves:
#1 Amazon New Release & Top 10 Bestseller: Tainted Love: A Bipolar Memoir
Featured on FOX, NBC, PIX11's NY Living, NPR, McCord List TV, and Medium, among others.
Top 2% Globally Ranked Podcast: I'm Bipolar. Now What?
100K+ Community: 6.6M+ video views in 90 days, with 85%+ reaching new audiences.
Through storytelling, education, and advocacy, Louise is challenging the stigma surrounding bipolar disorder and proving that recovery can be messy, imperfect, and still extraordinary.
In Tainted Love: A Bipolar Memoir, one impulsive decision sets in motion the compounding chaos and allure of four love stories—igniting in seduction and collapsing in disillusionment.
Enter Marco. Married. Tragically unattainable with dangerous ties to the Italian Mafia. She never once says no. Few things motivate a wedding like a cancer diagnosis, but, as it turns out, Jim loves beer, blow, and Mary Jane more than her. Drowning in his boyish baby blues, Luke promises her everything she's ever wanted, including baby Lily. And finally, she’s all too willing to hurl herself 1,400 miles for Patrick, the undeniable villain of her story.
In the end, the noise fades, the mask lifts, and something radical is discovered: untainted love.
Confronting the brutal complexities of the human mind, Tainted Love is a soul-stirring, emotionally arresting, coming-of-age memoir where mental illness, addiction, and identity collide with failed love and single motherhood.