Before recovery we're all pretty used to getting beat up from having this problem and by those who don't understand the problem we all were facing. At the very least by us coming into recovery we'll get back some of our dignity something that we all had lost. This was due in part from the misunderstanding that others have of our problem. In recovery we'll find people who understand, and not only do they understand they can show us how we can also get back our self respect, something else we all had lost that comes from having this problem. In recovery we learn that we are not bad trying to become good, that we have this problem and because we do, it makes us sick, and we can recover from this and become well. And most importantly what we get from coming into recovery is knowing that we are worth it and that we can do this. All we have to do to stop being sick and to get well is to do what recovery suggests we do, and if we do this will happen for all of us.