Please watch the following TED TALK below titled "I Am Not A Monster: Schizophrenia." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbagFzcyNiM)

The speaker is a young woman named Cecilia McGough, a student at Penn State University. This talk was given in March 2018 and I find it to be incredibly powerful. I hope that it makes you reflect on the devastating toll that schizophrenia has on the people who are afflicted with it. According to the World Health Organization (last updated Feb. 2017), over 21 million people worldwide suffer from schizophrenia (although Cecilia states that there are 54 million people worldwide). It is a severe mental disorder in which these individuals experience distortions in their thinking, emotions, language capabilities, perceptions, as well as their sense of self.

After watching the talk, please answer the following questions:

a) Before watching this film, what was your understanding of schizophrenia?

b) In February 2014, what happened to Cecilia?

c) How did her mother respond to Cecilia's diagnosis of schizophrenia? What do you think of her mother's response?

d) What were THREE pieces of information and/or reflections that you learned and/or took away from her talk?