Is it possible to become addicted to compliments?

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oh yeah, go on myspace, some of these girls have like 400+ picture comments and just continously add strangers asking for more.

i do not know if it is possible to become addicted to compliments, but i guess it is possible if one gets some sort of reward from them.

i am not very much interested in compliments because i do not know what the complimenting person is really thinking.
how would they know enough about my endeavors to praise me? also, i know not whether anyone else should be praised and so i have never complimented anyone about anything,

what would praise achieve anyway? if someone is good at what they do, then their talent is not modulated by external endorsement.

i need no one to tell me i did the right thing, because i always trust i did the right thing.
i am not like anyone i ever met, so i can not give much credit to their analysis of me.

Well, not addicted, but I craved compliments for a while, for the brief second that I actually believed what they said. I don't do that much anymore, usually now it makes me feel worse because I worry that I'm being selfish for asking for a compliment.
I wish you luck on working on your self-esteem, I'm doing the same thing right now.

You know i'm trying to help, not critisise you. My next post was going to be advice to help you improve on those things to feel better about yourself.

Yes. It is called histrionic personality disorder.