LouiseBarnett
LIVING WELL WITH
BIPOLAR DISORDER
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Author of Tainted Love: A Bipolar Memoir, host of the I'm Bipolar. Now What?, Podcast and a Jay Shetty Certified Life Coach helping people build recovery, stability, and hope after a bipolar diagnosis.
Diagnosed with Bipolar I after years of misdiagnosis, manic highs, crushing lows, addiction, and self-destruction, Louise now tells the stories most people are afraid to say out loud. Sober since 2021, she brings lived experience, humor, vulnerability, and zero interest in sugarcoating the realities of mental illness.
Louise challenges stigmas surrounding bipolar disorder and proves 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.
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