Self-taught resilience (vol.1) sets the stage for seeing an alternative cause for depression that is not discussed providers of mental health services. The book "I don't know, and I don't care" provides a series of lessons and leads one to sequentially step through discovery to a new way of thinking about the past and the future.The first focus on "I don't care", or "The ARC of emotions", has such topics as:Stinking thinking,Thought coupling,Approved and non-approved emotions,Living with no regrets,The reversed wires of neglect,The necessity of dishonesty,Why we couldn't see our own trauma story,False messages not to resolve the past,Morning dread and reorganization,Predicting emotions,A civil war and energy loss,The blanket forgiveness taught to a child,It's not triggers but truth,Emotions change as responsibility changes,Paradigm pain and post neglect paradigm stress,Objectification and invasions,Wisdom is going from FAR to PAR, andUpdating our awareness about neglectThe second focus on "I don't know", or "There's is no answer", has such topics as:YOYO and the missing theme to our life story,Personal authority versus our models,Our operating system (designed by a child of neglect),How does our lack of a Theory of mind affect the social realm,An operating system for the social world,A social world with an inaccurate OS and TOM,The model gives the meaning,Models which correctly predict the future,Reasons why you didn't change,Generalizing experience versus living in an isolated present,Reversals swaps and predicting the past,The swaps we made to survive the legacy of neglect, andMotivation and the TWEDS models of change.Additional thoughts delineate how individuals could form study groups to discuss and follow up on each level with others who also have a burning desire to change.Becoming the CEO of a life of meaning, andAn alternative to 12 step programs for finding meaning.This second volume in the Doing Without series is meant to be studied individually, and shared with others who have a similar goal of becoming able to 'zoom out' from our smaller world of hurt and confusion, to move beyond the limitations of a life impacted by the non-parenting of Neglect.
