#646 When A Parent Has Alzheimer's - Steph Jagger

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health, Sexuality

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Steph Jagger joins Paul to discuss the grief of loving someone with dementia. She also shares the small moments of beauty that can sometimes come out of this disease. Be sure to check out her book, Everything Left to Remember, where she beautifully documents the camping road trip she took with her mother while in the midst of her disease.

More About Steph

www.stephjagger.com

www.instagram.com/stephjagger

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250261830/everythinglefttoremember

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 646 with my guest, Steph Jagger.
0:06.9	Paul Gilmarten, this is the metal illness happy hour for those of you that are new.
0:11.6	It is a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions,
0:17.7	past traumas, sexual dysfunction, and everyday compulsive negative thinking.
0:23.2	And this shows not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling, which is
0:28.0	probably pretty obvious.
0:30.2	But I always just like to state that I am not a therapist.
0:34.9	I'm a person who has certainly been through a lot of trials and tribulations and done a
0:41.3	lot of therapy and gone to a lot of support groups.
0:45.6	And I started this podcast in 2011 because I wanted just to just create a place where
0:52.6	we can come to not necessarily have the solutions, but just to kind of let it all hang out
0:57.8	the ugly, the funny, the sad.
1:01.2	Yeah, you get it.
1:05.5	This is from the Ask Paul Anything Survey and this is filled out by a woman who calls herself.
1:11.7	What does she call herself?
1:12.7	Oh, I don't know if I have her name written down.
1:15.9	Oh, this is her name.
1:17.9	PTSD, OCD, anxiety with a dash of TISM.
1:22.0	I'm not even sure what the TISM means, but got
1:27.6	blessed.
1:28.6	And she says, Hi, Paul, I was in an abusive relationship for about four years that resulted
1:34.0	in PTSD and a dissociative disorder.
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