When one does negative things to one's self, you are not truly "loving yourself". Over the last days I have been doing a lot of further research on addictions, drugs and related problems, since I want to be able to solve these problems for others.
At the case where people do this, we can see strongly there is a lack of self-esteem, confidence and self love. I don't mean narcissistic self love and other deceptive forms of love, I mean actual self-love that is based on self respect. Trauma and other underlying problems, which can be healed by the love of the Gods if you let them, can be the sources of these problems. One has to go back and see on the root causes; self knowledge is very important here.
One must ask: Why am I doing this? Then the answer might be fairly evident: "I need confidence". "I suffer with my life because ___", "I need to have a good time" (that is a masked response). Yet you could have a good time without drug abuse, maybe with some alcohol. Or even without it. So what is keeping you? One must keep asking; eventually the facts will reveal themselves. Oftentimes the facts are hidden from your immediate understanding. "I find my life not that interesting" is another response; it all depends on the individual.
The less one has of the negative issues within, the more the soul can blossom unimpeded, the more one goes into the wrong direction, one sets themselves up for abuse by others, drugs, practice escapism and other negative things. One does not want to be who they are, they are not there yet. One is avoiding and coping with avoidance.
What is one avoiding? That is something important that must be faced. When that is faced, the rewards are standing within reach. The more you try to cheat through and bypass these things, the far further away you are from what you truly need inside.
To mention more explicit dangers, HPS Pythia has also stated many years ago in a very direct manner, "Drugs make you someone's slave (Bitch)". Her statements reflect wisdom of more than 5 decades in this life, she has seen it all in life and I know that personally. Many also here have seen where these paths end; only in darkness, deception and nothing of what one initially wanted. So one is fooled, enslaved and controlled.
Clearly that's not a good state to be, nor to be found over-dosed one night because the "Plug" decided it was time to finish your life. A lot of great people have been lost for literally no reason over these topics. People around this block have something to do with their existence during that lifetime, so dying randomly from these things is never a good idea.
We have endless cases of Zevists and I am truly proud of all of them, who actually built formiddable selves that are beyond these. And these people are still only developing; the path is long and the power you seek will be attained. Yet one must give this to themselves. The way to do this is to actually get there and not on the opposite direction.
This path over time will teach you slowly, and through overcoming with trials for your improvement, actual self love.
Impressions absorbed in your early life that you "need to be this or that" or other forms of self hate, can lead people to all sorts of negative actions in life committed against yourselves. These can manifest in addictions, drugs, trying to gain confidence and self love from the backdoor or through other engagements.
In all cases, none of this is going to truly help you. Everytime you do these things to yourself, you are only developing a sense of self-failure and self hate within. Because deep down everyone knows when they do these things, eventually all they do is wear themselves down.
Of major importance here is for one to understand that by ripping down your sanity, health, existence, wallet and everything else, only to get temporary false validation, is not going to lead you nowhere, but in more darkness than the starting point. One must make a choice to go the opposite direction.
That's not the powerful Darkness of Lucifer either, it's more like the darkness of the foolish and the enslaved; the real darkness is approached in other ways. Real darkness is to master within, is to dive within.
As that is a very large topic, I will end this post here; but if one refers above and re-reads they will understand what is meant and how they can trace the issues and actually tackle them. That's the only way. Avoidance is not the way.
-High Priest Zevios Metathronos