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Unlock the Hidden Code Running Your Life—And Rewrite It for Good.Your thoughts, relationships, addictions, and self-sabotaging behaviors aren’t random—they’re programmed patterns your brain has been running on autopilot.Decoded breaks down the subconscious lies shaping your…
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- Latest publication
- Aug 13, 2026
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- Apple #36 · US
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- Jul 9, 2026
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What Is Mental Illness Really? (opens the original)
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What if mental illness isn’t where the problem actually begins? In the Season 3 premiere of Decoded, Elisabeth McKay challenges the dominant framework for understanding mental health and presents a different hypothesis: what we call mental illness may be a downstream expression of a much larger neurocognitive process that begins with how the brain perceives reality. The sequence matters. Childhood experience creates underlying rules. Those rules shape perception. Perception generates biochemical
Is Reality Even Real? Part 2 | Self-Deception, Consciousness & Objective Truth (opens the original)
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If your perception isn't objective...How do you know what's actually real? In Part 2 of this Decoded series, Elisabeth McKay explores one of the most unsettling questions in neuroscience and psychology: How does self-deception form, and why does it feel indistinguishable from truth? Building on the foundation established in Part 1, this episode examines how attention, memory, emotional salience, prediction, and past experiences shape the reality you experience every day. Elisabeth explains why t
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