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The Martyr attracts the Mouse. It is like a sadist-masochist relationship: the Martyr moans, the Mouse listens in awe and feels needed.

Other people will tend to stay away from the Martyr because there is only so much lamentation you can take. When people stop coming to see Martyrs, they feel stranded with all their insecurity and proceed to produce more symptoms so that everyone begins to feel guilty and comes running back to their sick-bed, because this time they might really be ill …

Martyrs are in danger of developing very real illnesses, purely because they are thinking of them all the time (see pages 130–1).