Dr. Phil - (TroubledSon) - Johnny Cerisano "FREEZ" (FULL EPISODE!) *GRAPHIC*

Due to the strong language, today viewer discretion is advised in a new Dr. Phil, they say your son is like a wild animal. seven arrests, why do they keep locking you up? seven psychological wars, you can walk around and kick my walls and not be abusive to the point that it causes me to do that two clueless parents my father is threatening to blow my head off you are a big part of this problem a very concerned mother Sylvia emailed me seven times and each message became more and more desperate, my son is going to kill us as they threaten him over and over again.

I beg you to help us. I feel deep in my soul that something bad is going to happen if he doesn't get help soon. Now Sylvia says she is terrified of her. Her son Johnny, 24, who, according to her, is like a wild animal with continuous threats and uncontrollable rage that have turned her life into a nightmare. Now Johnny was caught on camera during one of his outbursts. Baby don't even tell us if you were drinking and I said no I can't do anything with you you went off and here's another incident. The answer is that I don't even have anyone who doesn't do it and here is another one of you, help me and you will do it.

I'm not going to stop the noise, just stop the noise. Stop the noise. You know, imagine living with that dysfunction. Terror and pure chaos on a daily basis. Sylvia says that she is so fed up that she is ready to get a restraining order against herself. son now Johnny John's father says he's had enough too Johnny is a ticking time bomb and scares me to death when I'm angry you better get out of my way and stay out of my way. I'm terrified of him. He just flies hands free nothing, they know exactly what buttons to push to the point where I self destruct, don't act stupid because I'll push you around like a wild animal when he's angry.

I feel like people don't respect me. it really makes me nervous I treat people with respect so I feel like I should get it back Johnny is very angry he threatens to kill me he is going to murder me he has connections and he can do it Johnny threatens my life I have you burned down this house while you sleep my parents are making a big deal of it to the fact that he has all these murder threats his anger has gotten him in trouble with the law Johnny has been arrested three times for DUI he has been arrested for domestic violence with his father they would start bothering me and I try to defend myself.

I take one more step to have them call the police. I can't even remember how many times the police have been called. He's never laid hands on me, but where is he? You don't know that breaking point, come on, well, Sylvia and John claim that they have tried everything in their power to help Johnny, including arresting him and even putting him in psychiatric wards, not once, not twice, seven different times to date. take away Johnny's anger and the anger has been so terrible that we have put him in hospitals. He has been admitted to the psychiatric ward so many times.

I started to really think he was a little crazy the last time they had to tie him up, he was in such a state. a rage that just went crazy was like an exorcist. I'm completely normal compared to the people in those psychiatric wards. One time a girl came out of her room screaming and cut her wrists and her blood spread all over the floor. that my parents put me through something like this I have so much anger and resentment towards them what's wrong Johnny says it's abuse he tells me to apologize and I tell him Johnny I'm not going to apologize for trying to help you I feel like my Parents do have me locked up a lot to not have to deal with me and my problems.

I have tried everything. Nothing works. I don't know what to do. I can not continue like this. Johnny says his parents are here. I am to blame for his behavior because he says they bother him day after day. I blame my parents for my extreme amount of anger for the simple fact that they constantly call the police. I constantly get arrested. They constantly keep me hospitalized. Johnny Will. I don't take responsibility for anything, there's always someone else. I don't have any problems. My parents are the problem. Johnny throws fits every day because he thinks I owe him the world to his mother.

I'm not coming back until you die. Don't leave. Someone will die tonight. John. stop, you're making everything work it's so frustrating, how can I get him help if he won't admit he needs help? I'm afraid that if my parents don't get rid of me, something will really change my life. It happens for the worst and it scares me, well actually I'm glad we're all here because I think this is a dangerous and volatile situation and my goal today is to get out of here with a plan and a solution to improve your life. Yo, what do these people do?

What do I need to get them to stop doing what they are doing or start doing what they are not doing so that their life is not chaotic? Well, for starters, my dad drinks every other day and threatens to. blow your mind so he's drinking and threatening and being confrontational what about your mother what does she need to stop doing what she's doing or start doing it she's not doing it he likes to constantly verbally throw pills and medications in my face like to you? I need pills, you need pills, you need pills and that bothers me because if I wasn't in so much pain and I was going through all this, you know, I wouldn't be half as angry as I am, why do they keep locking you up?

I don't have an answer for that, I just really don't, it's like every two or three months I come back to this and I sit there and think and think and think all the time by the minute, whether it's seven days, ten days or three. Days I'm constantly, you know, thinking why am I here? Well now, according to your mother, you said quote, I will murder you, I will stab you, I will gut you. I have connections and we will have someone find you and I will not go to your funeral. according to your dad said what you said quote I hope you fall down dead of a heart attack and I will spit on your grave I have guys who will come with machine guns and kill you I hope you collapse and die I hope you get throat cancer they rip out all your ropes vowels I'll kill you in your sleep I'll break your face I'll force you to give yourself painkillers until you overdose Now that's what they quote you as saying, you say those things right Yeah, and that worries everyone, right, and when you get angry, you start to scream and scream, and then you start screaming and screaming, what do you go back to a corner?

Could you threaten to beat and kill him? I just want to know what's threatening me I'm sick of it John if you think you could take me out let's do it right here these are lies I'll tell them while you talk and then he acts like a wild man and has more insight than him you two put together are in a bad situation when the guy who walks with a machete is the one with his feet on the ground Sylvia and John recently took Johnny to a doctor's appointment two hours from home they put these three in a car for two hours what could go wrong the argument in their on the way home was recorded listen and then I want to hear what Johnny has to say about this Johnny stop, you're making everything worse Johnny please oh with one hand I'll take my left hand and put it on my back, stop, I went out the next exit, okay, how do you feel when you hear that?

It's terrifying because I don't know where he is, at what point he's going to carry out what he's threatening to threaten. I do and I am afraid for him. I'm afraid of losing him, either to death or to the prison system, so that's going to happen. How are you going to feel when that happens? What is your biggest fear as a mother that my son is going to lose his life somehow if you don't want him to end up in prison stop calling the police on me do you have the same fear that this Hindi guy will go to him?

Yes, I told you. Your son and I wrote it because I thought it was vitally important You said, and I quote, it would be cool if Johnny fell off a bridge Yes, I said that with anger and pain I just can't take it anymore, don't you Tell that to your son, right? Would you threaten to take him out? Quote: I'll take you out. Did you threaten to beat and kill him? I just want to know. I never threatened to kill him. I threatened him. He threatens me that he will take it. Come out and stuff I said, let's go out in the yard, let's do it right now, I'm sick of it, John, if you think you could take me on my property and get me in trouble, let's do it.

You're a big man, come on, I'm tired, so you never threatened me, this right here, they're lies, I'll just tell them while you're talking, they're there, I caught one the time I told him, I told him to get out of the house if you don't come out from the house I was in the back cleaning my guns I came out with an empty one I say listen I said I'm going to blow out your tires I'm from under your car if you don't Get out of here before you call the police and say I threatened to shoot him.

They come to the house. I'm sitting in the back, of course drunk. I put my weapons on him again. I had a couple of drinks. I'm not drunk. You were drunk, they came back, they called me, they grabbed me, a company needs me, you know, and the broken back I have against my truck and everything handcuffs me, do you know why they put me in the car and I sat there for 20 minutes ? You told me they looked up they turned around and handcuffed him that's the only time I've been in jail in my entire life and that hurt me a lot the only time you guys were in jail don't go to jail guys you're divorced , you want to accept that, yes, that's the only time you've been in jail, also, when you say arrested for DUI, yes, but that was 15 or 17 years ago, okay, so it's still not the only time You've been in jail, so, mistreated. your is because every time you told me you were going to let me go you said if you caught the girls too that's what I told him on the phone and that's why they treated you like that because you threatened them if they could I arrested you because you were threatening me, you know it's okay , own the house, I don't care if you own the house, you act like you own the house, you can go around and kick my balls, well, stop it to the point that it provokes me to do that, John.

It's you, that's enough, this is okay, time out, Jesus, you have to clean your mouth first, okay, I know and I'm sorry, because listen, everyone here is a teaching tool so that the people at home who might Being in a similar situation they can say: wow! I can learn something from what happened, what you just heard was me, so it sounds like you were stuck in traffic instead of watching the Dr. Phil show. Johnny admits to having said that he will behead his own father. answer well he threatens to kill him again let's find out why these two attack each other like this after the break my dad and I are constantly with each other everyone is tired of you my fear for my life I walk out there with close access to a machete and then hey I forget, yeah I heard you, you nailed it, it hurts to see that happen to you boy I'm tired of being threatened and I'm tired of walking around with a knife and protecting myself my dad and I'm constantly with each other no one helps me everyone is tired of them they hate each other or she would die I feel like a ticking time bomb if he sent me over the edge I would leave him stranded John drinks to cope with his behavior Johnny probably wouldn't drink at all if he learned to act like a normal human being when he drinks, messes with Johnny, gets angry and starts insulting me like o a o o I wish you were never born I wish you would just die I said it would be great if Johnny fell off a bridge ninety percent of the time I fear for my life when I am around my father I walk with a decent person large sized knife in my pocket and close access to a machete, he has two guns, he has threatened to blow my head off so many times, He will literally look at me and say, if you say or do one more thing, I swear to God I will do it.

Blow your head off, he told me on the phone the other night that you know I would slide down your throat until my vocal points come out, in fact I'm beyond slitting your throat, I should just cut your whole head off, decapitation, okay? Um, do you recognize that your role in this is wrong? You have to take your part in this. Sometimes I try to be calm and I try to talk to him and then all of a sudden he explodes, okay? I don't want to own your part of this. How about you acknowledge that your behavior is unacceptable?

Yeah, you said my parents think I'm a problem, but I don't know why I made a list of why, well, you threatened to kill. your parents call your mom an infested black piece of old bastard in white you call your dad in white stupid in white in white cheesy ass son of a bitch you forged checks you tell them they owe you because of your illnesses you beat up the cops while fighting with your dad, you've been expelled, put on probation for possession of knives, smoking Klonopin, you have three DUIs, leaving the scene of an accident on two different occasions, you failed to control the destruction of property, you obstructed police, I mean, Does that seem like a problem to you?

Behavior for you, everything has a cause and an effect and they are the cause I am the effect you are saying that they bother you yes and they bother you and they criticize you they threaten you if you keep kicking a dog kicking a dog kicking a dog eventually that dog is going to bite, are those problematic behaviors, it is a problem, yes, you also said that I do not have any mental illness, I do not have any mental illness, but you have still been subjected to at least 10 psychiatrists, seven hospitalizations that you said were not justified, but you have also had seven arrests and seven attempted arrests.Suicide True, you sleep with a machete and say you have become a monster, would you feel comfortable sleeping in a house with someone who is drunk threatening to blow your head off?

No, look at this. This is a message that Johnny has and that his parents caught. on home video he addresses me in this take a look it's enough don't open the door to my study without permission when he stops for me he doesn't stop I hope Dr. Phil can help me because if I go back to this house and this continues there will be blood in her. I will use it. I want Dr. Phil to see all of this. I'm going to go look for it. I'll go away and scratch myself. Why am I 24 years old and I can?

I don't understand the prophecy, so they've violated your privacy for years, they're fine and this seems like a reasonable and proportionate response to you? Yes, because it's that or getting my head blown off that bothers me more than what you said and did. the video is your inability to look at that and say yeah, that's way outside of that, that's way over the line, yeah I saw that, I mean, that's the kind of behavior you expect to see when you have a really bad tragedy. , someone left and finished. something horrible and then you find something like that in the background that's not right, if that's okay with you then you've lost your bearings, let's take a break, let's listen to John's current wife Karen who says she's very fed up .

Up, she's ready to get out of the whole situation, let's find out why she says John and Sylvia are to blame for Johnny's out of control behavior and she may be right, we'll be right back. I give it to Johnny. I would allow you a lot I paid for everything Johnny has for Johnny he doesn't need to work why should he work I pay for everything Sylvia was missing to pay for her son Johnny's expenses because well she just says she feels bad for him Karen says she Husband John and his ex-wife are spoiling their son so much it's crippling him, look what she says.

I am Donny's stepmother, he is a very spoiled child. Don and I have a joint checking account and Johnny stole checks from our checkbook and Checks from the boards John was going to get him arrested I said okay, I said, I'll take care of it, but don't arrest him. I give so much to Johnny that he would allow it. I pay for everything Johnny has. Car insurance. Car payments. Cellphones. I'll take you and get you, come on, I'll take you and get your deal, I'll take you, I don't want to go anywhere with you, well, often I won't catch you, I'll get to where Johnny doesn't get to.

I don't need to work, why should I work? I pay for everything. I don't feel like my parents should give me anything. If you want to help someone, help them out of the kindness of your heart, but don't abuse them and wait until they do. locked up or arrested and then I feel bad and then, well, I paid your cell phone bill for you when I'm in a mental institution and I can't use it, why wouldn't you like to help me with something like that before everything happens? It gets out of control and they put me in a place like this because of you, where do you think this is going if something doesn't change, death or prison?

Do you think it can improve? I hope it can improve. I mean, that's all. I have just this little sliver of hope that I hold on to every day and it's about to dissolve. You're about to lose hope, yes, but do you want to know what I think? Yes, because yes, I have analyzed this situation. in depth and your behavior is absolutely scandalous, atrocious, off the charts, unacceptable. I don't wonder why you feel that way. I wonder why not. I understand why you feel that way. Just sit there and let me show you what I think. about this um, you know, I went back and took a look at what was going on at nine years old, you were diagnosed with Crohn's disease, okay, at nine years old, now it's interesting that that's when the outburst started because I mean to you.

You're nine years old and suddenly your insides are burning, suddenly you're sick all the time, suddenly you hurt all the time and a child doesn't know what to do without a child who doesn't. I don't understand that, okay, so you live with it until at 15 they remove part of your intestines, the surgery begins and wow, what seven suicide attempts starts to accumulate, go, my God, you're going to start dismantling my body here. It wasn't enough that he hurt me every minute of every day of my life, now you're going to start dismantling me, okay, so seven suicide attempts and what do you know about 16, someone comes and says, well, he has Oppositional Defiant.

Disorder, he just tends to object to things, yes you really do when that's part of your life, then he starts behaving erratically. self-medicating and we do indeed get into trouble here but everything else is going well oh no I forgot he has to have surgery to remove a tumor from his brain okay so now his intestines are on fire they are cutting out part of his his intestines. now he has a brain tumor that he has to go through and yeah okay now we have suicide attempt number eight so he ends up here again if any one ends up there again and there again and there again and there again and here again, self-medicating and then he has nerve damage, it's okay because he breaks his tailbone, they say, well, he has a little ups and downs, you know, he has some bipolar disorders and he ends up in the hospital for the seventh time, he's well, and it gets a little frustrating, yeah, definitely, and then it just seems like there's no easy place to fall, oh, I mean, yeah, you're right, hey, I get it, I get it, yeah, I heard you, you have achieved it, you will do my homework, your behavior is still fine, yes, it is fine, so everything. this is happening and by the way parents don't sign up, they know how to deal with this, you start to feel inadequate because you can't protect your child, you can't help them, you don't know how to fix it.

And then he starts self-medicating and drinking and having rage because he feels what kind of man I am. I can't even protect my own son. I can't think of cutting it. It hurts me to see that happen to you, boy. For sure yes. and then they start barking at each other and this starts to fall apart, that's why I said, I don't wonder why, I wonder why not, how else would you feel like you get kicked out of mental hospitals, that's where you put the people who do it? things that are expelled from mental hospitals, let me tell you something that he has never had the opportunity to improve here because your enablers either let him quit or you explode and leave.

I say your behavior is not right, they are expelling you. outside of mental hospitals, that's where you put people who do things that get kicked out of mental hospitals and they're kicking you out, so I took a look, this is what happened. Well, number one, we're back in 06. Now, okay, they say you're. there for the disposition of major depressive disorder want to participate in an Oaths for Education program additional provider recommendations strongly recommend antidepressant medications highly recommended for family and individual therapy supportive therapy particularly for him and his father, this is what is supposed what you should do, but you didn't do it right, number two, there is no way they will tell you the reason for the hospitalization, homicidal ideas towards the father, he refused to start taking antidepressant medication, but he was willing to get counseling, so they told you Let us try to stabilize your mood, you will not comply, number three. you are involuntarily admitted again you said don't get involved in substance abuse this is in 2010 you are self-medicating you are using drugs so you didn't turn number four you go in again this time you discuss with the patient's diagnosis the role of medication and therapy he doesn't want to continue you will not do it patient number five was requested by the family subsequently detained was offered psychiatric follow-up refused will not accept treatment patient number six and his father would also call Dr.

Stafford Administration requesting early discharge prognosis poor may improve if It's Cooperative if you get counseling but you don't want to stay you don't want to do it number seven this was just this year about three or four years ago he was at this place, but he didn't agree with the services there, so he stopped going. We know that he has used several therapists from different agencies. He did not feel that any of the therapists were beneficial to him. He said that he stopped therapy from all of his, John's, and his father's previous therapists. His father and they both agree that John should stop therapy because they didn't want him to take medication and I didn't just stop.

People are a big part of this problem. You are not part of your solution. How do you force him to go? With all this anger and yelling and everything and I'm not going, you guys don't understand, you're a big part of the problem here. I'm sorry, I told you I was going to tell you things you didn't want to know. Not just me in all the hospitals you've been to Breach Breach Breach Breach someone here has some knowledge besides him I mean he acts like a wild man and he has more knowledge than you two combined and it's God you're in a bad place situation when the guy walking with a machete is the one with his feet on the ground.

Dr. Charles Sophie, sitting here, stand up, Dr. Sophie. Dr. Sophie is a Los Angeles-based psychiatrist and medical director. The Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services, which is the largest in the entire country, works with Family Dynamics every day and you have a lot to say about the role of these parents, absolutely, I want to make it very simple, you should understand it. sober you have to be sober and you have to stop being codependent you are destroying your children is your feeling that alcohol here is having a 100 problem I mean he can't be the father that he probably would like to be or needs as a father but At the end of the day you are taking medication I know you are in pain it is not easy to see your son like this we know it but come on it is selfish to take away his pain and not help him and then you are abusing him, he cannot get better if you two continue to be part of the problem , so think about that now, Sylvia's sister, while Terry is here, why she's the only one Johnny says he doesn't want to kill when we come back strangely worried about Johnny I feel like Johnny is one hundred percent capable of hurting someone I think this could happen at any time believe it or not there is one person in this family who Johnny says he respects and will Listen to Terry he is my favorite man.

I am extremely worried about Johnny. I think Johnny is disturbed. I myself am not afraid of Johnny because he will come to me as a source of someone to talk to. He would lay me down and die for it. Woman, no one in my family calls me to check on me. I personally feel that Johnny is one hundred percent capable of hurting someone in particular, his mother, he has made some very descriptive threats to him, the most

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one has been, she just said: "I'm going to gut you and that made my hair crawl." I never heard that before coming out of his mouth.

I never heard anyone tell me that he's going to gut me, his own mother, unless Johnny gets help right away, I think there are lives at risk. that this could happen at any time. It's not getting better, it's getting progressively worse. Well, thanks for being here. You've been watching this whole show. Yes, I

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y believe that John and Sylvia contribute to a lot of the problems that Johnny has. I understand that he has had medical problems and that he is not as mature as he should be, but his father shouldn't have to knock on the door and say Johnny, take your medication, Johnny needs to be responsible enough to take his own medication.

They do too much for him when Johnny wrecks a car, as stated, his father was there to get him another one. I think Sylvia takes care of Johnny because of the medical problems and sometimes he doesn't want to be treated like a child and I can see why she would do that because it's just a mother's tendency, you agree that her behavior is scandalous, oh, I totally agree, it's scandalous. I was wondering if there was ever a time when you were really happy or had a smile on your face and I went through every photo and every inch of video of you that we had and in one place I saw Johnny smile and it was when you were with Terry, real smiles and genuine, which tells me that you have the ability to feel some joy and peace and you are talented, he really is talented, oh yes, he is very talented, thank you, does everyone support him as a musician?, oh yes, oh yes, Yeah.

I mean, that's a good thing. do it right, no, it's fine and that's different, I mean, I have to send it to the musician and he does it, it's very, it's, it's, it's very different, I mean, that's my son, that's pretty tame, in It's actually okay, Johnny is shaking his head. He doesn't think they support him well, I understand that, but you have the ability to do it well, do you think so, can you summarize right now? I mean, you're on National Television, yeah, no pressure, right, yeah, just several million people. It's okay What will it take for me to achieve it?

I'm curious I'm crying and dying inside I'm serious I hit you with so many Rhymes I leave you delirious and I'm verbal Attack the one who's acting the most tired because I don't trust anyone and I hope you can understand it the way I spit it out and give it back to them These critics who went with I'm an outrageous psychopath who playswith me and he could go in and out of my brain like he was crazy like a night glow. The letters burn eternally. True fanatics will not turn against me. The haters want to kick me in the face, but me.

I'm eating you up internally keeping the same mentality drowning in my reality so don't be stupid when I make it seem like you've been down on me because you haven't come girls good morning okay we'll be right back. I've been watching the Twitter feed that's been coming in during the show here Linda 5'5 Harris says that sometimes when you can't express yourself with words you express them through your music uh Helen left in 1957 says mom is a father for It's his fault that he lives by manipulating dad, it's toxic and the ant is the only saving grace uh Fifi runs away says why are these parents hindering the treatment of their troubled son is the drama so addictive that they don't want to help this is sad I think you need some serious evaluations that have not been done, I want you to get a multifaceted job from multiple disciplines to see exactly where you are now and I want to send you to do those evaluations, you have to travel to do it because I want to send you to the best in the country which is the PNP Center in Dallas, Texas and these are the best of the best and at that point I think you may want to consider going to a Dual Diagnosis Treatment Center to address your pain and give you pain. management tools may involve medications may not, but I want you to say yes, I will do this step by step until we get it right, yes, I will do it step by step, and I can't make you comply, but I want you to or is this Center Recovery is a leader in dual diagnosis treatment there is a place on South Padre Island called Origins and there is a pain management protocol and a pain management specialist there that I believe can change your life dramatically in a short period of time time and you two have as much work to do as he does while he's gone and we'll talk about that step by step at a time, okay, okay, I want to thank all my guests today, a special thanks to Dr.

Sophie, uh the PNP Center and Orange Juice Recovery Center we appreciate it thank you for being here foreigner