Oprah Meets a Schizophrenic Child With Over 200 Imaginary Friends | The Oprah Winfrey Show | OWN

we all know children who have imaginary friends nothing out of the ordinary but for a rare few the friends they see are very real hallucinations that never leave sometimes driving violent behavior Michael and Susan are living with that every day with their seven-year-old daughter her name is Jani she's been diagnosed with one of the most severe cases of childhood schizophrenia doctors have ever seen schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness where reality gets interpreted abnormally causing psychosis and in Jana's case she sees imaginary people with names like 24 hours rats that visit her she says name Wednesday and even a cat named 400 who tells her to do bad things it's been a long frightening road for this family here's what happened when I stopped by to meet Jani at a real friend's house where she often plays take a look is that Jani how are you I came to talk to you today Harpo backwards Jani Harpo backwards Oprah yep you want to go outside swimming yes I know Wednesday who's Wednesday she's the worst rat she's a worse rat tell me all your friends you say Wednesday Thursday friends and do they have numbers too what are their numbers what are the numbers mean do they have names and numbers no no so do you know do you feel Jenny Jenny Jenny Jenny do you want to sit outside or do you want to sit inside outside where would you like to sit tell me where to sit this is going to be pretty challenging I must say I've talked to a lot to different people but this is gonna be different I can tell I heard you you drew me some pictures here can you tell me what these mean that's a cat 400 is he like a friend of yours or yeah he's the bad friend what did she live where does he live yeah how many people live in Cowell any how many or they go people or all animals or what all animals live in Callaway me how many of them Monday four hundred that's Monday Wednesday okay 20 24 hours what is 24 hours is that a cat - that's a rat in Sycamore Sycamore a rat or Cal that's a cat for sure I can see that and 24 hours who's 24 hours she's a person and she lives in Callaway me too now where is Callaway me where is it tell you why because Wednesday loose Aaron Chisholm and she's the worst one what is she telling me is on the board of my world in your words meaning this world yeah and what is Wednesday do why is she the worst one she tells you the hit do you think sometimes it maybe you're different hello come back okay there you go what about Wednesday 400 just left 400 just left I mean I've been here 10 minutes and I can tell you that it's it feels exhausting it is extremely exhausting it never ends yeah never it never ends okay tell me you all these are that would be my favorite that would be mom who's this who's that I don't want to talk okay then you don't have to that would be the end of the interview okay she doesn't want to talk yeah well what's happening right now is because we're not actively engaging her right now she's she's sliding back mm-hmm where every second from the moment that she wakes up to the moment that she goes to sleep because if if we don't they air it all the hallucinations come back right that's a lot it's a lot hi youtubers I'm excited to give you an update about our own YouTube channel now you can find new videos every day they're the kind of videos it'll make you look at life differently they may even make you laugh a little bit subscribe to the own channel today and we'll see you on YouTube

Channel: OWN

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Length: 6min 11sec (371 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 30 2018