About Mr. Lyle Prouse's amazing story - notice that as soon as he started treating HIMSELF with the respect that he deserved, that other people followed suit and did the same. And when he treated himself badly, the system and other people did likewise.
As soon as he took responsibility and accepted the prison term others saw this strength and rallied around him. He did not lose faith in himself. People don't like a lost cause, however they will rally around a good cause/person no matter how weak it is at the time. That old paradox, we often must become weak and helpless in order to become strong, to lose everything for a chance to start again. The house is often so rotten that is must be stripped down to its foundation, and rebuilt again.