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When Investment Losses Feel Like Personal Failures

I started investing last year but every market dip makes me want to sell everything because watching my money disappear feels like watching myself fail.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Market volatility becomes entangled with self-concept when financial outcomes are interpreted as character judgments.

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