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Have you noticed a major shift in your mood and behavior since the Bitcoin price crashed a few days ago? Over the last 2 years I’ve gone on a journey to build a citadel mind and body to be able to handle the 10X problems that will come with a Bitcoin 10X. Even after all the work I’ve done in myself, I’ve gone into fight/flight/freeze. I got into an argument with my wife which I normally would have navigated with my new relationship tools. Here’s what I noticed, maybe you felt similar… Body Signs: -Chest tightness -Elevated respiratory rate (WHOOP) -Traps/chest guarding -Extremely tight shoulders -Sighing & deep uncomfortable breaths Freeze: -Low motivation -“Stuck” feeling -Narrowed perspective (focusing on gaps rather than gains) Flight: -Doomscrolling Epstein posts -Avoiding conversations -Wanting distraction, junk food, vegging out Fight: -Irritability -Overreacting to wife & daughter -Agitation I started to think “is this Depression?” … but when I described everything to ChatGPT, it started making sense. I realized that this is not depression or a mindset failure, it’s a nervous system response to the threat of a Bitcoin price crash. If you’ve been “all in” on Bitcoin for a long time, you physiologically associate Bitcoin with safety, sovereignty, future security, identity, purpose, competence, etc. The longer you’re in Bitcoin and hold through long deep drawdowns, you develop psychological anchor to price. Price goes up = safety Price goes down = threat financial trauma is real. When bitcoin is at the top of your identity stack and your financial life is tied to it over years (15 years for me) price drops like this will activate your sympathetic nervous system. All of these physiological responses are a conditioning response. GPT calls it “acute nervous-system dysregulation” triggered by a know cue. In the last couple of years I’ve identified activities that help me regulate these feels and reduce price induced back pain: -Exercise (gym/lifting) -Massage -Disconnection from news/macro/politics -No social media debating -No scrolling social media/twitter -Fill my mind with positive inputs & healthy mindset routines When the price crashed I re-exposed myself. I went on Twitter and started scrolling (Epstein files made it worse) & listening to Twitter spaces. My system said “oh we’re back here…” My old pathways relit…the old responses came back. The difference now is I caught myself early. I used AI to help me figure out what is going on with me and I didn’t spiral for days or weeks. Now that I know what’s happening, the work is to decouple identity/safety from price. My body is doing exactly what it learned to do under prolonged financial intensity of previous cycles. If you’re feeling this way too, I hope this helped! ChatGPT suggests somatic therapy, EMDR or brainspotting. “Even when the number drops, I am still safe.” I apologized my my wife, took responsibility for my over-reaction and we both went to the gym and have changed our day around. My mindset coach @danmartell says “you can start a diet half way through a bag of chips.” He also says don’t let a bad morning turn into a bad day. Your mind understands Bitcoin volatility, your body does not. My next step is to break to reflex of price drop > body panic to remove the flooding component. Do this work and you won’t need to “sell to the sleeping point.” My goal is to HODL through hellfire and stay at my baseline & still be able to show up and stay consistent.


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