Trading, once it gets out of control, is worse than just losing money.

A follower once told me about his experience. After a liquidation last year, he completely disappeared for almost three months. When I saw him again, it was obvious something was very wrong—he’d lost more than 20 pounds, his hair had even turned a little gray, and he looked as if he had suddenly aged a lot.

He said that during that time, he basically shut himself in his room. He didn’t pull the curtains, and he didn’t even look at his phone. He was completely cut off; the outside world seemed to have nothing to do with him.

What he lost was not just “tens of thousands” in the simple sense. There were the retirement savings his parents had put aside for years, and also the down payment that had originally been planned for his wedding. But what was hardest to bear was that to this day, he still felt he was not at fault. He kept thinking that it was only “just a little bit away from turning things around and making it all back.”

When he said that, I didn’t really respond much, because a few years earlier, I had been in a similar state myself.

Back then, it was also contracts and high leverage. I stayed up late every night watching the order book, thinking about the market during the day, and at night in my dreams it was all candlestick charts—I kept telling myself that the next trade would bring back all the losses from before.#Sharplink增持1万枚ETH
Until one day, a very ordinary phone call. My mom asked me, “Have you been really busy lately? Why haven’t you come home for so long?” And it was at that moment that I suddenly realized I hadn’t had a proper meal in a long time, and I hadn’t sat down normally to talk with my family in a long time.

In that moment, I was actually quite clear-headed.

Making money is supposed to improve your life. But many people, after doing it for a while, end up with life reduced to nothing but ups and downs, liquidations, and emotions.$XLM

The easiest thing about the crypto world to get people hooked on isn’t losing money—it’s the feeling that you can always win it back on the next round, and then you sink deeper and deeper into it.

Later, I gradually understood one thing: you can trade, but you can’t let trading swallow up your life.

The market will always be there, but a person only has one life.

Sometimes what really needs to be cut off isn’t just your position, but your state of mind.$BE