Lost everything before this run up. Struggling to cope.

Feeling the need to share my experience.

Feeling hopeless and like I will never have another opportunity in life again to set myself up for financial stability in life.

This last year has been very rough and I’m struggling to cope with my losses especially now seeing the potential I could have made these past couple months.

A year ago, I was working full time making a decent salary for a medium cost of living city, I had 35k invested and saved in Bitcoin at 20k. I saved this up over 3 years from 2020. This was basically all of my savings. I thought I was being smart and setting myself up well for this next halving.

Then I was laid off and my partner left me. I ended up having to take it all out to get by. Additionally, out of desperation I tried making some quit risky trades with alts hoping I would be able to make something. I lost everything I had saved and invested.

Now I’m unemployed, piled up in debt, losing my car, and Im now filing for bankruptcy. It fucking sucks knowing if I had just left it alone I would be in a much better position. Life is hard right now.

To me wasn’t about making millions. I just wanted to make enough to put down on a house and live comfortably. I have never had that feeling and a few stupid trades caused me to lose out on potentially setting myself up. It’s excruciating / crippling to think about at times.

I know there’s stories like this often. I wanted to share my experience for anyone else in a similar position or who has been through something similar. I’m also looking for advice on how others have moved on from such a loss and gotten back on track. At the moment it feels impossible.

Edit: Wow. I did not expect this many responses! Thank you everyone for sharing your experiences as well. It really puts things into perspective. ????????????????