I’m addicted to buying video games. I'll be looking forward to this amazing title, but then I keep buying games and not playing them. I tell myself, I’m not going to get any more until I finish what is in my library. But every Steam sale, I end up buying games I never play. Many players have libraries full of games that have never even been installed. So why don’t we play the games we buy?

I am a people pleaser. Making others happy shouldn’t be a bad thing. After all, what’s the danger of being a people-pleaser? But it means losing yourself, almost entirely. Why am I a people pleaser? It’s a habit that I can’t shake. These are my confessions, the confessions of a people pleaser. And what recovery and authenticity mean to those, like myself, that are trying to find their way back.