My daughter's mentally ill, she needs help.
She does need medication, she believes medication
is poison and that her dad and I are trying to kill her.
I have no idea why Ayanna thinks I want her dead.
Ayanna had a temper tantrum and threw something against
the wall and put that hole there.
Ayanna right now, is very hostile toward me.
She's very violent, somehow I say something to her
that flipped a switch or trigger.
Since she was 18, it seems to have accelerated,
whatever's going on is getting worse.
I'd say in the past three years, she's becoming I think
a little delusional.
We had tornadoes in the area, she sent me a text
saying that she had went outside and she saw a
funnel cloud and did some sort of dance and
she was scared because it was dangerous but
she had people to protect.
I just responded, please stay inside when it's dangerous
outside, and that really terrified me.
I believe she's imagining a number of things.
She has changed from a sweet young lady to a complete
opposite person.
She thinks that because I've used a ouija board
40 years ago, she thinks that she has been cursed
by a demon.
What do you say to that?
Something terrible is going to happen to her
because Ayanna is impulsive and I think that
she's going to wind up not just homeless but dead.
Well Ayanna's mother Robin is here, her father
Robert is joining us by a polycom.
Your concern is that your daughter is mentally ill.
And her safety, yeah.
And because of that, she's in harms way that she's
either going to get in conflict with someone or
engage someone in a way that they're going to react
violently and she's going to get hurt or killed.
Robert, what's your position on this?
I feel the same way, Ayanna has become very violent.
She has fits of rages, madness, and she's just not stable.
Are you having fits of rage?
No I'm pretty chill right now.
Well right now, but are there times when you're
getting very animated and angry and violent with
anyone, with your parents or anyone else?
I've gotten violent with my dad before yes.
I mean, he's been violent with me before so of course
anybody would be on guard.
Did you punch this hole in the wall
that we're looking at here?
No, that's why I think it's hilarious.
He told me my sister did that.
You picked up an object out of a fit of rage
and threw it against the wall and I heard that.
You were the only person in the room.
No, I'm sorry, I'm just gonna have to deny
you on that one.
That's fine, you can deny it all you want.
Well, according to your parents, you're really
irrational and they give you advice that you twist it.
That you explode at the mention of getting any kind
of help because you don't think you need any kind of help.
I don't mind counseling.
That you hit yourself
when you're angry and frustrated.
No.
That's not true?
No, what?
I don't know if it's a habit but I have seen it.
And you believe that they're trying
to poison you with meds and that you violently
attacked Robert and that they think that you may
be possessed by demons because they've seen you
speaking in tongues?
They see me speaking in tongues?
Eastern Algonquin, that's the, okay.
Probably what I was saying was (foreign language)
which means calm the devil.