On my way to work, I checked my position, clearly just floating losses, yet my heartbeat was more familiar than when NFT floor prices collapsed years ago... When I was floating profits, I actually slept better, maybe because my brain defaulted to "this doesn't count as mine," and I would ignore a pullback as if nothing happened; but floating losses get automatically stamped as "already lost," even if I haven't sold yet, glaring like money missing from my wallet. To put it simply, I'm most afraid not of losing, but of not knowing how to exit: I haven't written a proper exit plan, the more I look, the more I want to add to my position, and the more I add, the more anxious I become.

Recently, in the group, there's been a debate about privacy coins, coin mixing, and compliance boundaries, and I can really empathize: the ambiguous zone is the most tormenting, just like floating losses — uncertainty eats away at sleep. Now I force myself to set stop-loss, take-profit, and exit buttons first, or else my emotions will place orders for me, after all, I’m the one who ultimately pays.