I have learned something about myself this weekend. I seem to crave compliments and praise from people.

I was feeling depressed earlier today for no apparent reason until I booted up an online team based game that I'm really good at and do so well that I sometimes get complimented by people and ever since then, my mood has elevated from almost feeling like I wanted to cry to feeling cheery. The same thing happened to me yesterday; I was feeling overwhelmed with life and booted up my game to destress and I had some dude praise me about how amazing I am and it made my night.

It is because of this that I have a bit of a video game addiction. I'm not addicted to the games so much as the showers of praise and compliments from others when I do good and I take my game seriously and try to be the best player possible while putting thousands of hours in to be good at it just so people compliment me.

Can anybody else relate?