Jan Stewart: A Parent’s Journey Raising Children with OCD and Neurodiversity (#490)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In episode 490 chat with Jan Stewart. Jan is a mental health and neurodiversity advocate. She authored the book, ‘Hold on Tight: A Parent’s Journey Raising Children with Mental Illness’.
We discuss Jan’s parenting OCD story, neurodiversity, getting help for herself and her kids, why the patient is the whole family, separating her son from his diagnosis, reducing parental accommodation, advice for loved ones and parents, the importance of not forgetting the siblings, parental self-care, and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.5 | The OCD Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding around obsessive, |
| 0:11.1 | compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people |
| 0:16.8 | who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories. And welcome to episode 490 of the podcast. |
| 0:24.9 | And in this one, I chat with Jan Stewart. Jan is a mental health and neurodiversity advocate. |
| 0:30.9 | She offered the book, Hold on Tight, A Parents Journey Raising Children with Mental Illness. |
| 0:36.6 | And in this one, we discuss Jan's parenting |
| 0:39.3 | OCD story, neurodiversity, getting help for herself and her kids, why the patient is the whole family, |
| 0:47.4 | separating her son from his diagnosis, reducing parental accommodation, advice for loved ones and parents, the importance of not forgetting |
| 0:56.6 | the siblings, parental self-care, and much more. If OCD is interfering with your life, no CD can help. |
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| 1:18.6 | seven days on average. No hassle, just real science-backed help and support between sessions. |
| 1:24.9 | Begin your journey at nocd.com or the link will be in the episode description. |
| 1:30.0 | So thank you so much to Jan for sharing her and her kids' stories. I really appreciate it. |
| 1:35.3 | And thank you to you guys as always for listening. It means a lot. And I hope this episode helps |
| 1:40.4 | you in some way. And at the start of this interview, Jam mentions a magazine article |
| 1:45.4 | in which she interviewed me for. She mentioned it was in today's parent. I think that's what |
| 1:50.7 | we originally were going to put it in. And then it ended up going in exceptional needs today, |
| 1:55.4 | just in case you ended up searching for it. But I put the link in the show notes if you want to |
| 1:59.6 | check it out. And without further ado, here is Jan. |
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