The reader may go away disillusioned; or may seek for "the" answer in the next book, so that 'self-help books can become an addiction in and of themselves' – a process that will 'have fostered the belabored self' rather than relieving it. In that perspective, since all self-help books 'have at least one common message. They tell you that you have the power to change yourself...By implication all of these books are saying, if you are in pain, if you are stuck and can't seem to change, it's no one's fault but your own'.