Its great to see this type of thing being started! Congratulations to Cecilia!
Cecilia McGough never shied away from vividly describing her experiences with the schizophrenia disorder.
“Everyone sees, hears and feels things that aren’t there when they’re dreaming,” she said. “I’m just someone who can’t turn off my nightmares even when I’m awake.”
McGough co-founded the new club Students with Schizophrenia alongside Abdul Al-Kaf . The club, with goals of becoming a global non-profit, aims to help students across campus and around the world who have schizophrenia, a mental disease that affects 1 percent of the population worldwide.
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Cecilia McGough is an astronomer, activist, and writer as a Penn State Schreyer Honors College scholar. Cecilia is the founder of the Penn State Pulsar Search Collaboratory. She has been participating in pulsar research continuously since December of 2009, co-discovering pulsar J1930-1852 with the widest orbit ever observed around another neutron star, competing in the International Space Olympics held in Russia, and co-authoring her research in the Astrophysics Journal: arXiv:1503.06276v1.
Cecilia is a mental health activist in fighting against the negative stigma towards mental illness. She is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of the soon to launch non-profit Students With Schizophrenia which is the only non-profit in the United States focused on empowering college students with schizophrenia.
http://sites.psu.edu/ceciliamcgougheportfolio/
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