MS

"Mental sickness has set up a system by which it never loses.
No matter what you do and no matter what the results are, you
will win an ego-victory. That means that when you send your
desires out into the world: 1. You will get what you want,
or 2. You won't get what you want. If you get what you want,
the pseudo-nature says, "I have at last been given what I so
richly deserve," and the sickness feels affirmed. If you don't
get what you want, you feel sorry for yourself. You still feel
affirmed because you get a feeling, and that's all that neurosis
wants is a feeling." VH