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What Is Mental Illness Really?

2026-08-13 · 66 min · episode 1 · 15 entities

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    Link in episode "What Is Mental Illness Really?": https://amazon.com/YOUR-BRAIN-FILTHY-LIAR-Self-Deception/dp/1967424284/ref=sr_1_1?crid=390FC0W304YNI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.I8_kpD55nc-N5yNG8B9OPQ.Q7fi8mscYcCo01FBkOKtQgnXw7exKMp_Qus3pkQiQDw&dib_tag=se&keywords=your+brain+is+a+filthy+liar&qid=1767306891&sprefix=your+brain+is+a%2Caps%2C212&sr=8-1
  • → discusses Health & Fitness concept
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    Feed category: Health & Fitness
  • → discusses Mental Health person
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    Feed category: Mental Health
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    Feed author/publisher: Elisabeth McKay | Mental Health Innovator and PredictiveMind Founder
  • → references Bizzie website
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    Link in episode "What Is Mental Illness Really?": https://healingsauna.com/bizzie?rfsn=8731070.5183d1
  • → references breakmethod.com website
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    Link in episode "What Is Mental Illness Really?": https://breakmethod.com/
  • → references predictivemind.io website
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    Link in episode "What Is Mental Illness Really?": https://predictivemind.io/
  • → references Bizziegold website
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    Link in episode "What Is Mental Illness Really?": https://elliemd.com/bizziegold

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  • mentioned Bizzie website
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    Link in episode "What Is Mental Illness Really?": https://healingsauna.com/bizzie?rfsn=8731070.5183d1
  • mentioned breakmethod.com website
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    Link in episode "What Is Mental Illness Really?": https://breakmethod.com/
  • mentioned predictivemind.io website
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    Link in episode "What Is Mental Illness Really?": https://predictivemind.io/
  • mentioned Bizziegold website
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    Link in episode "What Is Mental Illness Really?": https://elliemd.com/bizziegold
  • references Bizzie website
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    Link in episode "What Is Mental Illness Really?": https://healingsauna.com/bizzie?rfsn=8731070.5183d1
  • references breakmethod.com website
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    Link in episode "What Is Mental Illness Really?": https://breakmethod.com/
  • references predictivemind.io website
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    Link in episode "What Is Mental Illness Really?": https://predictivemind.io/
  • references Bizziegold website
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    Link in episode "What Is Mental Illness Really?": https://elliemd.com/bizziegold

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    Link in episode "What Is Mental Illness Really?": https://amazon.com/YOUR-BRAIN-FILTHY-LIAR-Self-Deception/dp/1967424284/ref=sr_1_1?crid=390FC0W304YNI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.I8_kpD55nc-N5yNG8B9OPQ.Q7fi8mscYcCo01FBkOKtQgnXw7exKMp_Qus3pkQiQDw&dib_tag=se&keywords=your+brain+is+a+filthy+liar&qid=1767306891&sprefix=your+brain+is+a%2Caps%2C212&sr=8-1
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "What Is Mental Illness Really?": https://amazon.com/YOUR-BRAIN-FILTHY-LIAR-Self-Deception/dp/1967424284/ref=sr_1_1?crid=390FC0W304YNI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.I8_kpD55nc-N5yNG8B9OPQ.Q7fi8mscYcCo01FBkOKtQgnXw7exKMp_Qus3pkQiQDw&dib_tag=se&keywords=your+brain+is+a+filthy+liar&qid=1767306891&sprefix=your+brain+is+a%2Caps%2C212&sr=8-1

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  • mentioned Health & Fitness concept
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    Feed category: Health & Fitness
  • discusses Health & Fitness concept
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    Feed category: Health & Fitness

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  • mentioned Mental Health person
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    Feed category: Mental Health
  • discusses Mental Health person
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    Feed category: Mental Health

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Episode description as stored
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 states. Familiar biochemical states influence behavior. When that process becomes sustained, rigid, and difficult to interrupt, the downstream symptoms can begin to impair relationships, communication, decision-making, emotional regulation, and daily functioning. In this episode, Elisabeth breaks down: What “mental illness” actually describes Why a diagnosis is not the same thing as a cause How distorted perception changes behavior The role of childhood in constructing underlying rules Why intelligence doesn’t guarantee objective perception The Neurocognitive Funnel Emotional homeostasis and why the familiar can feel safe How perception generates biochemical responses Anxiety, depression, agency, and self-efficacy Why self-regulation is not the absence of emotion Metacognition and the ability to question your own thinking Why adaptive communication matters The chemical imbalance model and its limitations Why medication cannot explain the root cause by itself How parents can build self-trust, self-regulation, self-efficacy, and metacognition in children Why mental illness should never become an identity What it means to intervene at the root of the process This episode does not argue that suffering is imaginary or that biological factors don't exist. It argues that treating behavior or biochemistry in isolation leaves the rest of the process untouched. If mental illness is produced through a process, then understanding that process creates opportunities to interrupt it. 🔗 Find out your Brain Pattern Type: https://predictivemind.io/ 🔗 Learn about Rapid Emotional Rewiring: https://breakmethod.com/ 🔗 Grab a Copy of Your Brain is a Filthy Liar: https://www.amazon.com/YOUR-BRAIN-FILTHY-LIAR-Self-Deception/dp/1967424284/ref=sr_1_1?crid=390FC0W304YNI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.I8_kpD55nc-N5yNG8B9OPQ.Q7fi8mscYcCo01FBkOKtQgnXw7exKMp_Qus3pkQiQDw&dib_tag=se&keywords=your+brain+is+a+filthy+liar&qid=1767306891&sprefix=your+brain+is+a%2Caps%2C212&sr=8-1 🔗 My Peptide Supplier: https://elliemd.com/bizziegold 🔗 The Only Sauna I Recommend: https://www.healingsauna.com/bizzie?rfsn=8731070.5183d1 (Use CODE: BGHEAL for $200 OFF + Free Shipping) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices