The Page Starts With a Phone Number: A Reporter's Evening With Mike Sain't Louis's Mental Health Series

MADRID, October 25, 2026

If you are struggling right now, you don't need to read any further. In the United States, call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. In Spain, call 024.

That is, more or less, how the page begins. Not with a song, not with a video, not with a joke. I came to Mike Sain't Louis the way many people did: through the noise. A Madrid-based indie alternative artist who introduces himself as "the first AI singer-songwriter," he writes every lyric himself and produces the music and vocal performance with artificial intelligence. His catalog is loud, camp, uncensored, full of ex-boyfriends and nosy neighbors. Plenty of listeners found him in 2024, when his track "Tan Cateto" went viral on TikTok.

So it stopped me cold to open the page that gathers his writing on mental health and find, in bold, a set of phone numbers. In his original text they are Spanish ones: 024, available around the clock, free, with a chat option for anyone who can't talk; 112 for immediate danger; and the Teléfono de la Esperanza for crisis support day and night. Underneath, three words that carry the whole series: asking for help works.

A Map, Not a Memoir

I read the page slowly, the way you read something you suspect will matter to someone you know.

Sain't Louis explains why the series exists in one plain sentence: if someone going through something similar reads it and feels a little less alone, or finds the nerve to ask for help, it will have been worth it. He wants mental health discussed clearly, "without morbidity and without shame," and he wants suicide, specifically, to stop being taboo.

He also draws a line I haven't seen many artists draw so clearly. He writes the lyrics and composes; the music and vocal performance are made with AI. But what he tells in this series, he says, has nothing artificial about it, and nothing of a character. "It's my life."

What He Chose to Say

The page offers a short summary for readers arriving cold. He fell in love at twenty-two. After two relationships that failed, he came to understand that both partners had been narcissistic. As a child he went through bullying and abuse, which he describes without detail and which built up inside him, in his words, like a time bomb. In his forties he received a diagnosis that finally gave a name to what had been weighing on him. Today he is working through those wounds with the help of a psychologist he openly thanks.

What struck me most was what he leaves out. No names. No graphic details. "I don't want this series to read like a morbid story," he writes. "I want it to read like an outstretched hand."

Five Texts, Read in Order

The core of the page is a reading list, and I went through it the way he suggests: in order, though he says you can jump straight to the one that hits closest.

The first text is about loving with your whole heart and only later understanding what happened, including why he uses the word "narcissist" without presenting it as a clinical diagnosis, and which warning signs he wishes he'd known. The second is about childhood wounds that explode in adulthood, and what research says about trauma surfacing decades later. The third explains, with reliable sources and a small glossary, what it means to finally put a name to what you carry, plus advice on telling other people.

The fourth is a thank-you to his psychologist and a simple explanation of what therapy is and how to look for it in Spain, along with the place songs hold in his recovery. The fifth isn't about him at all. It's about recognizing warning signs in someone you care about, how to ask them directly, which myths do harm, and whom to call, written following World Health Organization guidance.

The series continues on his second site, gayfolkplanet.com, with texts on narcissistic abuse in LGBTQ+ couples and on homophobic bullying in childhood.

Then I Pressed Play

Only after all that did I go back to the music, and it sounded different. The humor is still there, sharp and ridiculous. But I understood better why so many of his songs circle around ex-partners, manipulation and the slow work of getting your footing back. With professional help, Sain't Louis turns years of relationships with narcissistic partners into songs, to make psychological abuse visible and to let people who have lived through it feel seen and believed.

The photo that accompanies this piece shows him among olive trees, in a white linen shirt, a whitewashed village blurred behind him. It is a calm image, and after reading the series, it felt like the right one.

Why It Matters Here

American listeners are used to artists talking about therapy; it has become almost a genre of its own. What makes this different is the framing. Sain't Louis doesn't sell his story or dramatize it. He builds a map, puts the help lines first, and keeps the focus on the reader. For queer listeners in particular, who are often told to laugh things off, it is a reminder that someone can be very funny and still be telling you the truth.

Where to Listen

All of Mike Sain't Louis's music is free to stream and download at https://mikesaintlouis.com, with the lyrics for every song. It is also on Spotify, Deezer and the major streaming platforms. The full mental health series page: https://mikesaintlouis.com/blog/salud-mental-sin-tabu-la-serie-completa-y-donde-pedir-ayuda

About Mike Sain't Louis

Mike Sain't Louis is an indie alternative artist from Madrid and, in his own words, "the first AI singer-songwriter." Lyricist, composer, producer, artistic director and CEO of his independent label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS, he has released 273 singles and more than 280 music videos over roughly two years under the name PLANETA GAYFOLK. His GAYFOLK trilogy, "Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK," "Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK" and "El día de la liberación," follows a journey to a planet where everyone can live as they are.

Press Contact

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