@rewirewithmilli: My psychiatrist explained something about my trading that i wish i understood years earlier. she showed me that the real question wasn’t “why can’t i just stop?” but “what am i actually getting from the behavior?” let me explain.. think about someone who wants to lose weight but keeps overeating. from the outside, the solution seems obvious: just eat less. but that ignores the behavior underneath it. what are they getting from food? comfort, escape, stress relief? what hole are they trying to fill with the behavior? that changed the way i looked at my trading. for the first time, i stopped seeing myself as weak or undisciplined and started looking at the pattern underneath it. i realised i was using trading for much more than making money. I had made trading responsible for giving me confidence, purpose, progress, excitement, and a sense of self-worth. i was trying to fix my entire life’s worth of emotional pain through another trade, another payout, another account, because for a few moments, winning made everything feel okay. it made me feel good about myself. it was a way for me to deal with my everyday-life emotions. like a binge eater uses food to comfort themselves, an alcoholic alcohol... I was using the market to fill my emotional holes. once i saw that clearly, i started building those things somewhere else. - i learned new skills and started learning a language to give me a sense of growth. - I went to the gym which not only gave me new confidence in myself, but also taught me that process doesn't come in a day but is built over times. - I built financial stability outside of trading which gave me pride and meaning. the more capable, secure, and proud i felt outside the market, the less i needed trading to prove those things to me, and the easier following my system felt. we all have our emotional baggage but we can't using trading as a way to fix it. we have to do the work outside the markets, to become stronger inside the markets. be honest, which emotional pain are you trying to numb with trading? comment if you want to open up and discuss it. #tradingforbeginners #howtotrade #trading #tradingmindset

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