Low Self Worth the unresolved problem in recovery

Gandhi always knew how to nail a subject, and never better with this quote when referring to alcohol addiction. Even the sinner using alcohol hates the sin that they are embroiled in.

Without becoming narcissistic, to recover you really have to be able to love yourself. So many practising alcoholics are generous to the point of being insane with giving, sometimes driven by a desire to be loved, but often to appease their guilt.

They are unable to get their heads around the blindly obvious fact that to those who clearly love them – they are really worth the time and effort shown to get them better. Only when they stop externalising trying to make themselves loveable, do they become able to recover.

This problem of guilt is exacerbated by counsellors with simply no experience of the affliction.