When the alcoholic is drinking, he reveals his true personality. Alcohol's effect on the brain causes severe psychological and emotional distortions of the normal personality. Sobriety reveals the alcoholic's true personality. The fact that alcoholics often continue to be depressed, anxious, irritable, and unhappy after they stop drinking is evidence their disease is caused by psychological problems. If people would only drink responsibly, they would not become alcoholics.
Many responsible drinkers become alcoholics.
An alcoholic has to want help to be helped. Most drinking alcoholics do nto want to be helped. They are sick, unable to think rationally, and incapable of giving up alcohol by themselves. Most recovered alcoholics were forced into treatment against their will. Self-motivation usually occurs during treatment, not before.