deantonio director of the child and adolescent psychiatric ward at ucla she gets very explosive and out of control she hears voices at times deantonio told abc news i would say with her its there is something disturbed about her theres something disturbed about her brennas family has not one but two children in the throes of mental illness her younger sister 12yearold ailish also struggles with hallucinations violent tendencies and the possibilities of schizophrenia the youngest daughter 9yearold kieran is healthy on top of hospital bills and therapy sessions the monthly copays for both brennas and ailishs medications are approximately 300 a month for the family all three wohlenberg girls are covered under their father brads insurance but their mother wohlenberg told abc news that getting appointments with an overwhelmingly busy local psychiatrist is nearly impossible the financial burdens faced by these families are only one facet of the struggle after almost a year of rotating between two separate apartments the strain of the arrangement shows in the schofields relationship the couple opened up to abc news about the times when things have looked so bad that one or both have considered having affairs or moving away on the most difficult days they admit to having contemplated suicide living apart is hard michael schofield told abc news we are not able to be with each other constantly and there is a lot of mixed messagesit is kind of like living as a divorced couple he says they get little relief when friends offer to take care of jani and bodhi they have the best of intentions but it is still stressful he said because unless jani is at ucla we are never confident of her safety jennifer wohlenberg laments the strain placed on her youngest daughter because of brenna and ailishs ailments its very hard on kieran and she carries so much guilt about the fact that she is healthy jennifer wohlenberg told abc news she feels this tremendous sense of responsibility that she has to be perfect she is going to get a scholarship shes going to go to medical school and why so she can cure us but jennifer wohlenberg says theres a reason to make the familys battle public especially because so often people express surprise at how normal the wohlenbergs look on the outside ill describe something then people will say but youre so normal youre so everyday said jennifer wohlenberg and its like thats thats the whole point of this this is why i want to talk about it because we are everyday and there are people who are struggling with mental illness in the everyday world theyre not these monsters that people make them out to be they are somebodys child they are somebodys sister and they deserve to be fought for and continuing the fight is exactly what these families plan to do click here for more information on childhood schizophrenia