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What if the anxiety, brain fog, fatigue, intrusive thoughts, or dysregulation you're experiencing isn't coming exclusively from your thoughts? And what if a physical symptom isn't exclusively physical either? In this...

What if your child seemed completely normal—and then, within days, became a completely different person? Sudden OCD. Severe separation anxiety. Food restriction. Tics or unusual movements. Sleep disruption. Frequent...

What separates an intrusive thought from a delusion? And at what point does your interpretation of reality become so rigid that contradictory evidence can no longer reach you? In this episode of Decoded, Elisabeth McKay...

The Lindsay Clancy trial raises a question bigger than guilt or innocence: What happens when psychiatry, self-reporting, medication, human perception, and the judicial system collide? In this episode of Decoded...

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...

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...

What if you've never actually experienced objective reality? In this episode of Decoded , Elisabeth McKay explores one of the most profound questions in neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology: How does the brain...

Weed culture has spent years convincing people that THC helps anxiety. But what if the opposite is true? In this episode of Decoded , Elisabeth McKay breaks down the psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral patterns...

What happens when a civilization removes God—but keeps searching for meaning? In this episode of Decoded , Elisabeth McKay explores one of the most important cultural questions of our time: Who killed God? This is not...

A year ago, Elisabeth McKay made a decision she never thought she’d make. After years of managing lupus symptoms, inflammation, migraines, hormonal dysfunction, and unexplained weight gain through diet, exercise, and...

<p>Psychedelics have gone from fringe culture to mainstream mental health conversation. But what if the discussion is missing the most important question?</p><p>Who should never be taking them?</p><p>In this episode of...

<p>Jealousy is one of the most socially normalized forms of self-destruction.</p><p><br></p><p>People romanticize it. Joke about it. Build identities around it. But jealousy has very little to do with the other...

<p>DARVO has become one of the most overused and misunderstood psychological terms on the internet.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, Elisabeth McKay breaks down the difference between actual DARVO behavior and “truth...

<p>What happens when an entire society is pushed into chaos—and then handed a “solution”?</p><p>In this archived live lecture from 2022, Elisabeth breaks down the psychology of systems, collective trauma, media priming...

<p>What if the very thing you believe is healing you… is actually fragmenting you further?</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of Decoded, Elisabeth McKay dismantles the modern obsession with shadow work, parts work...