The psychological toll of holding through the bear market.

It's incredibly easy to be a genius in a bull market when everything goes up 10% a day. But man, holding through the last two years of the bear market was psychologically brutal.
There were days when I opened my portfolio tracker and just felt physically sick. Watching altcoins bleed out 80%, 90% of their value while macro analysts on Twitter screamed that Bitcoin was going to $10k takes a massive toll on your mental health. The hardest part wasn't even the financial loss; it was the isolation. Everyone in your real life who you bragged to during the bull run is suddenly looking at you like you're an idiot who fell for a Ponzi scheme.
What actually kept me sane was having a rigid strategy and refusing to panic-sell during network congestion or flash crashes. Knowing my core funds were safely locked away, and my active trading stack was sitting on a trusted CEX, prevented me from making emotional, split-second decisions to capitulate. I have to give a massive shoutout to BitMart that didn't play games with user deposits, didn't halt withdrawals, and quietly survived 8 years of this absolute madness. If you made it to today without selling your core bags, be proud of yourself. The diamond hands meme is funny, but the reality of it is agonizing.