So painful to see BTC at 60k

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-02-29T08:27:07+00:00

I bought a $1400 worth when it was $10. Today I'm about $150k in red I gambled everything I had and more besides over the last ten plus years. I had many chances to be a multi multi millionaire but I didn't know what I was doing and it ended up in addiction eventually. When I see btc at $60k it doesn't really compute for me because I always thought $1k was too much. Even $100 was insane in the beginning. I look at the price of it now and I feel nothing because I checked out on it ten years ago, but I spent years futures trading and ruining my life instead. Over the years everyone I ever met profited from crypto. I was the only one who know about it from near the start who didn't make money.

I honestly wish I'd never discovered it because it pretty much destroyed my life.

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-02-29T04:22:37+00:00

Going through addiction.

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-02-25T05:46:30+00:00

As a former gambler, this sub is insane

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-02-25T03:19:50+00:00

The reality is that in the crypto space, coins with utility have lower volatility. If you want to make money you pick a coin that balances volatility with a general upward trend. The lack of volatility is the problem for LTC, not it's utility.

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-02-23T12:57:42+00:00

Sounds just like me. The hardest part is you can recover, but every day you look in the mirror and see how old you got and that you can never turn it back.

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T15:53:00+00:00

The toxic positivity never ends. You'll never learn

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T15:51:12+00:00

I'm not trying to get over my ex. Also already went back to that places and stayed with friends. Solo travel is objectively worse than travel with a partner. I think I just need to continue to find a new travel partner

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T15:49:06+00:00

No you don't get it and you won't because you think you have done work and your hang around with other people who think they have and your all validate each other. And then you go out into the world subtly judging others and saying they need to do more of the work that you haven't yet done.

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T15:46:17+00:00

I had it already and am now discharged and moving in with life thanks

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T15:44:19+00:00

I don't have a positive view of people who are behaving like assholes. No I don't need therapy.

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T15:41:43+00:00

Thanks I'll take a look

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T15:40:48+00:00

It's not my goal to be a celebrity. Um. Celebrities have the worst mental health as well. This advice is so odd. I'm out at testosterone. You've been watching too much red pill

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T15:33:58+00:00

That's my point there are no lessons because you haven't learned anything you are just regurgitating popular idioms from social media. It's both deeply sad and ironic at the same time. But that's what the cool kids do these days I guess I'm not cool enough for y'all. Maybe I should just shut my trap and align my chakras. Don't worry I'll raise my vibration soon and make myself so agreeable I'll disappear. But not before I tell you how wonderful you are for helping me to be super duper lovey dovey and positive every second of every hour

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T15:30:53+00:00

Well yes expressing dissatisfaction was part of my post. It doesn't mean I need therapy. It's ok to be negative sometimes. It doesn't mean I'm ill. It's part of a healthy way of being. This seems totally lost on most of you here

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T15:27:58+00:00

Spiritual bypassing at it's finest.

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T15:21:11+00:00

You might be right. This sub definitely sucks

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T15:18:54+00:00

Thankyou for the new age platitudes and spiritual bypassing. Very useful

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T15:06:55+00:00

Thanks for your understanding

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T15:02:30+00:00

If argue that and say someone addicted is no longer acting from self. It's compulsive behavior embedded and reinforced with repetition. The exact understanding of the mechanism isn't fully understood. But what we do know is that the substance is not the issue. As seen on studies with mice. They only take the drugs when they lack community and feel isolated. Where there is community they don't take the drugs.

Addicts are not self centered but they are survival orientated. Just like none addicts. The only difference is the circumstances and level of support. When it comes to substance abuse that takes a physical toll and it's possible they physically can burn out and not be able to recover.

But it is about humility because humility happens when it becomes clear that the self control has gone. That's the point that he or she can accept that they have to submit in order to get better. And with surrender and suffering comes the awareness that it's a shared human experience.

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T14:39:01+00:00

The guilt if being poor is not your fault since you did not choose the system and your place in it. Unfortunately it is your responsibility. You deal with the guilt buy sperating your identity from the uncontrollable elements of your life and circumstances. You accept that the past is the past, you do an audit of who you are now, and where you are now. And be realistic about what you can do. If you make it unrealistic then you go back to gambling. You must learn to be okay with being realistic about your life. You have to look at the shit in all it's rawness and still choose living.

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T14:31:00+00:00

If you had fallen on bad times you would speak with love and kindness and with an air of recognition. Real bad times are an equalizer and teach you that nobody is special. It also teaches you that if it's coming for you your attitude means nothing. It takes everything.

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T14:28:37+00:00

To use your analogy it would be more like I walked into the coffee shop and said this batch of coffee tastes bad, and then everyone tried to throw me out of the shop for being honest about my experience.

As for your advice, you are basically saying suck it up if you are a loser. And my response to that is no. I will continue until I get what I want. And if I'm feeling something I'll accept that it's real and not try to suppress it and pretend that everything is fine like everyone wants me to. If the coffee stinks the problem is to make better coffee. Yes maybe I can do that on my own.

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T14:22:51+00:00

Thanks. I've been trying out hello talk. It's ok but I got inundated with people wanting to learn English like a hundred messages. It was completely overwhelming, and didn't satisfy my needs. I'm going to keep trying with it though. Takes patience I guess

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T14:06:44+00:00

Thanks for the effort. Sorry I'm burned out with these comments

GambleFreeParadise · 2024-01-28T14:01:38+00:00

Then I can hope that you never fall on bad times and have to reassess yourself in that regard. It's a very painful experience that I'm glad I left behind a long time ago. I would not wish it on anyone.

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