Addiction, A Search For Love

My experience as a social worker with drug addiction

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This is a somewhat controversial story because everything written here is purely based on my professional experience. Besides being a professional social worker, I am a spiritual coach specializing in self-love. This is important to mention, as it clarifies my perspective.

Most of the time, I work with people with alcohol addictions. From time to time, people with other kinds of addiction find their way into my office, which is a homeless information point in a small town near Cologne, Germany. By now, I would say I have seen nearly every addiction. To be clear, I am talking about alcohol, heroin, coke, crystal, speed, and so on. Whenever someone stumbles into my office, and it is addiction-based, it is always the same.

First, the person feels shame because it is obvious. Their problem becomes visible, and somebody notices. I tell them there is no reason to be ashamed because there is generally a reason for their consumption.

Usually, they start to relax a little bit, but then I get a little bit deeper, and I tell them that addiction is the attempt to get away from their feelings, especially the feeling of not being loved, not by anyone, but by themselves. They try to fill the emptiness with other things but with little to no…