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What Is Mental Illness Really?
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…
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