You just can't wrap your head around it otherwise. The logical struggle at understanding the illogical.
Its weird, I've met a lot of social workers and many are just people good at helping other people. I've also met social workers that went into social work to save themselves. They were more screwed up then anyone they would likely meet in the course of their work. I think I've met the poster child for "why you shouldn't go into social work if...".