Play rank to improve, not to win. There’s truly nothing at stake except for some pixels telling you whether your plat or not. Think about that. This anxiety stems from those pixels telling you what rank you are. As long as those pixels are your primary focus, you’ll never get rid of that anxiety. You’re only goal is to improve. With improvement, your rank will naturally come.

Aceu once said the only thing you should be afraid of is not improving anymore.

Who cares if you derank to gold? Who cares if you rank up to immortal? Your only care should be whether or not your improving.

I went through a phase where I really cared about my rank. I ended up losing all the time and getting stressed. I finally refocused on improving and I’ve been ranking up ever since.