Anyone veteran unker auntie experienced kaokao lost in investment before?

How you deal with it emotionally?
How you live after the lost?
How the lost change your lifestyle and mind in term of financial?

Your experience is youngster lesson, if you don't mind to share.
NOTE : Serious thread, no kopitiam (at least don't get transferred), no fighting.

Thank you for all not hesitate to share the experience. It's really seldom reading about the adverse side of investment as none would like to share the failure.

So far, have not seen any unker aunty share about the 2008 and earlier recession, how to live over the doom days. May be we all here are majority investor (or new) of youngster generation which yet to experience those suffering moment from financial and investment perspective.

Always we heard some sifu suggest to average down and when you believe continue to hold, or save warchest and get ready to hoot during/after recession. I just don't understand how to hold up my believe when the price arrow are shooting down in a graph and my heart is keep pumping the blood all over the body while we unable to identify where is the bottom and start bounce back.

Are you able to hold?
Are you dare to hoot?

Sure a lot Kena burnt. .stocks down down down