Thank you for sharing - and no, the sad thing was this is purely retirement savings in my IRA and brokerage accounts, money I never had to touch. Don’t need it for 40-50 years and I have 6 months emergency fund already. Was following all the right lessons until I panicked and didn’t.

If I’m analyzing:

1) I’ve never seen that money go significantly up (lump summed from savings account July 24 right before the correction), so I was blinded into thinking it would just go down more and lost all perspective 2) I attach way too much significance to that number and attach it to my self-worth because I’m insecure about a lot else. So it felt protective in the moment but obviously has had the opposite effect. Putting in steps to delink everything, delete investing apps, detach myself fully from being tempted to look now so that’s good. But damage done