The prevailing emotion experienced by many when any market is falling is anxiety.  The cause of anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically when we anticipate a negative outcome to an imminent event or uncertainty.  First, whatever you are feeling, you are feeling.  That’s a fact. It doesn’t help, and probably is hurtful, to tell yourself you “should” not be feeling anxiety over the decrease in your portfolio.  There are many reasons why a person may feel anxiety around a decline in value.  Some could be because more information needed.  Other reasons are anchored in unresolved trauma from past experiences that may have little to do with the falling markets

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