I'm Bipolar. Now What? Recovery, Stability, and Living Well.

Louise Barnett

Booking Overview

This is a lived-experience and practical mental-health interview show focused on bipolar disorder, addiction recovery, stability, and living well, typically featuring advocates, authors, and founders with relevant personal or professional expertise. Credible pitches include mental-health advocates, authors, clinicians, recovery professionals, and creators of tools or organizations serving people with bipolar disorder; booking difficulty is low to medium because guests are generally accessible specialists rather than highly prominent public figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 134

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 5.5k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Louise Barnett - Jay Shetty Certified Life Coach, author of Tainted Love: A Bipolar Memoir, and advocate who draws on her lived experience with Bipolar I disorder, addiction, sobriety, and recovery.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Lived experience with bipolar disorder, mental health, addiction, or chronic illness; relevant advocacy, clinical, nonprofit, writing, technology, or recovery expertise; and a practical perspective on treatment, resilience, or stability.

Required Achievements:

Authored a relevant book, Founded a mental-health nonprofit, advocacy project, or health-related tool, Built professional expertise in mental health, recovery, or personalized care, Demonstrated meaningful lived-experience advocacy

Recent Guest Discussions

Ravi Mishra - Bipolar Disorder, Mood Tracking, Sleep, Medication Patterns, Early Warning Signs, Trauma, Hospitalization, Depression, And Stability.

Candace Schoner - Living With Chronic Illness And Multiple Diagnoses, Resilience, Therapy, Movement, Writing, Self-awareness, Mental-health Advocacy, And Finding Purpose After A Life Transition.

Kristen Ruth Davis - Pharmacogenetic Testing, Treatment-resistant Depression, Personalized Psychiatry, Psychiatric Hospitalization, ECT, Patient Advocacy, Medication Stigma, And Recovery.

Recent Topics

Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health, Addiction, Sobriety, Psychiatry

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

I'm Bipolar. Now What? Recovery, Stability, and Living Well.

132. Bipolar: The Male Perspective & Marriage

September 14, 2026

What does bipolar disorder look like in men? And what role can a spouse play in helping someone build and protect stability?This conversation brings together two perspectives we need more of: men speaking openly about living with bipolar disorder, and honest conversations about what it means to love someone who lives with it.In this episode of I’m Bipolar. Now What?, I reconnect with Ken Walsh, five years after we first met through sharing our stories of mental health and recovery.Since then,...

131. I Couldn’t Manage My Bipolar Until I Got Sober

September 07, 2026

For years, I treated my bipolar disorder and my relationship with alcohol like two completely separate problems. It took me six years after my Bipolar I diagnosis to understand just how connected they were.In this episode, I’m talking about addiction, sobriety, and why getting sober didn’t cure my bipolar disorder, but gave me the clarity I needed to finally learn how to manage it.In this episode:Why I used alcohol to numb the lows, fuel the highs, and escape realityHow being highly functioni...

130. The 1st Mood Tracking App for Bipolar Disorder: Steadyline with creator and founder Ravi Mishra

August 24, 2026

My guest today is Ravi Mishra.Ravi has been living with bipolar disorder for more than a decade. His journey began with childhood trauma and years of depression before he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2015.A severe manic episode that required hospitalization became the first major turning point in his life. While rebuilding from that experience, he also faced the devastating loss of his mother.Years later, despite building a successful career as a software engineer, Ravi experienced ...

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