Genius! That's it! I've found the answer to all my videogame problems! Apparently I'm not getting my butt handed to me in all these FPS games because I'm a bad player - no, far from it - but rather because I'm seriously depressed and am having trouble thinking. Look, I'll believe this to a degree, but on the other hand I think I'm just playing against a bunch of 13-year-olds who have nothing better to do than play games. I have responsibilities!

From the article:

According to a study by the US National Institute of Mental Health, depression sufferers were outperformed by their "healthy" peers in a test that used scenes based on Duke Nukem. It would seem that tests relying on spatial memory -- in this case, locating landmarks in a virtual gameworld -- might provide a method for quantifying depression. Apparently subjects suffering from deep levels of depression located the least number of landmarks. Previous research suggests that depression might be associated with a shrunken hippocampus, a part of the brain that processes spatial memory.

Read the rest of the article over at joystiq.com