>As it is, Naomi says she's not doing it to become a MVP, but she does answer more questions in a day than many MVPs answer in a week.

John,

I agree with Marcia here. In order to become an MVP you have to be an expert in the field, not only share the existing solutions based on your search abilities and good memory.

I think one of the reasons I became so active was to kill the pain, distract my thoughts to something positive and to try to prove that I'm not completelly worthless and nobody as something made me feel so.

I don't think I was able to regain the self-confidence back, but at least some appreciation made me feel better and wanted to achieve better results and outdone myself.