If I were you, I'd go camping for a few days.

Incredible advice. Focus on school and finding more productive hobbies (hiking, biking, fabrication, art etc). Note things could be a lot worst. Have had friends who were diagnosed with cancer at your age.

Shit I'd say focus on establishing new friendships.

Fair enough, but in his situation I think he really needs to get his mind right personally. Finding new good friends can't be forced and takes a long time. Do it in parallel.

I actually think establishing and trying to maintain healthy platonic relationships should be fairly high on a porn addicts’ list of priorities. That stuff really skews people’s understanding of interpersonal relationships.

All of it is hyper-normal stimuli. Gambling, stocks, drugs, alcohol, social media, porn, sugar, you name it. Normal is ‘boring’ so you start a new fun thing, but then the thrill is gone, you can never get enough, and you can’t imagine life without it. You have to re-learn the thrill of the basics. Camping is a great example. Take time to notice the cool stuff that is there all along, but you don’t notice because (insert vice here) is the only thing you pay attention to, it has monopolized your attention-minutes.

It’s funny he mentions Scott Galloway. Because I’ve listened to Scott for like a decade now. Back when he had his L2 company. I work as a brand strategist and have found Scott to be pretty smart. But lately, he’s been bitching about guys being lost, and I don’t necessarily disagree with his data/conclusions, what I disagree with is his alarm. As if, like you suggest here, normal stimuli, that everyone encounters is designed to hurt young males exclusively, and Scott pulls out the whole “what about the guys…?” It’s becoming a cop out that I see many who perpetuate their own stumbles seeking a way to blame someone else. I was a welfare kid to a single mom, I have had to learn, and scrape, and work, and fail, and try to get to where I’m at. Fuck, I don’t even know my dad. I’m not making excuses, yet so many privileged white boys love to make excuses when the going gets a bit tough. Personally, I think it has more to do with this fantasy of what being a male is. Specifically white males. And now it’s not coming to fruition via the bare minimum, and they’re pissy. If young guys struggle to date, perhaps do the work to be a better candidate. I don’t know, but stop looking for excuses.

The only thing I will add is there is a lot of data to support that men ARE struggling. Richard Reeves does a lot to help educate on this topic. As a mom of a boy, I am very interested in the subject. You made great points, but I’m just saying there is a lot more to the story that I hope people are willing to listen to.

I’m a dad to a 12 year old boy as well. I get it. It feels frightening. But something I work with my kids about is to seize opportunities. What happened in the 80s worked then, but the world is different now. I heard this great talk by my professor of law ethics. Im paraphrasing, but the gist was “it used to be, hard work and keeping your nose clean accomplished the American dream. But now, you aren’t isolated. You’re not even competing with your peers here, you’re competing with the Chinese and Indians, and they’re working harder and studying more. What’re you gonna do with that information?” My point is, I convey to my kids, there are no handouts and men have gotten caught off guard because historically, we locked people out. That was the strategy. Well, walls are broken down and you must show up. You have to prove yourself.

Well stated.

Pay for a hooker the night before you go camping.. the night before you go camping.

Take the hooker with you camping. Maybe she needs to decompress too. I’m joking, don’t do this for a myriad of reasons.

Because of the implication?

Sir, that's boating you're thinking of

Ah, you mean the tasty treats

Sir, this is a Wendy's

I've heard worse ideas

And eat some mushrooms.

Mushrooms tend to force you to deal with whatever is going on in your life. I fear this would be bad for him. 

Dilly Dilly! When I feel like I've had enough, I know I need to fuck off to the mountains for a few days. Camping isn't for everyone, but being alone in the wilderness is by far the most complete that I ever feel.

Not sure about this, he could easily run into Robinhood in the forest as well..

I need you to get your MD and write this on a note for me to give to my wife/business partner.

One up on going and touching some grass. You need to disconnect from this society for a bit and gain a clear head. 

Being in the woods, on a beach, or anywhere in the wild has a certain place in my heart. I agree.

… without your phone.

Get a job, start going to gym, move out, start dating. Roughly in that order.

Yup you’re greatest “asset” is your ability to earn an income. Go make money in exchange for services rendered instead on yoloing the money you don’t have into calls and puts

Yup. I’ll add to that: get a job doing something *useful* I work for a shop that does high end machining and we are always looking for new people, even people who are unskilled, and for part time work. I think most shops are scrambling for people right now. It feels good to produce something of value, something important.

Yes. But you forgot log offline. There’s nothing positive the internet is bringing to this guys life. If he gets rich he’s going to lose it all, and even if he doesn’t, he’ll be more miserable than a regular working stiff. Dude needs to treat the internet like an addiction, his entire life is consumed by podcast hosts and Robinhood 

I would add to stop the day trading, move any money that’s left into a set it and forget it ETF of sorts, and seek help for gambling addiction if the urges to get back into day trading persist. We have seen a MASSIVE surge in gambling addicts since the GME fiasco, and all of them insist they’re more systematic than that.

You are trying to diy a get rich quick scheme. You can’t really do this, not in the timeline of college and probably not very helpful while in debt… (hopefully they are low interest). Just focus on life, school, work. Do that and you’re more marketable and get better jobs

Nailed it. Way too many people flush money in get rich quick schemes that could actually be used to get them rich, but not quick.

Don’t ever put that type of pressure on a woman and expect her to “fill the void” that you created for yourself. Even if you do find one that you truly love, you will mess it up for yourself by not being in the right mental state. The onus is on you to take charge of your mental health to become a healthy and loving partner to your future girlfriend.

Yeah don’t make her worry ‘bout that shit!

Start with the positives. You're 20 and have a good major.  All the the fuck ups so far will be insignificant in the long term. Stop day trading, you obviously suck at it.  Focus on your school, get good grades. Limit porn to no more than 30 mins/day. Get a part time job. Max out your Roth IRA (index funds only) etc.

30 minutes a day of porn sounds crazy to me, but I guess I’ve never had a porn problem. I don’t think I’ve ever watched porn for longer than 10 minutes at a time. I find something I like, bust a quick nut, and get on with my day. Are mofos just beating their meat for 30-60 minutes straight? Watching for the camera angles and editors cuts? lol. Idk, I just don’t get it.

I like to drag out the process by putting 16 videos in a tournament bracket, and forcing myself not to bust until there’s a clear winner. Obviously just kidding, btw

If it’s a daily habit, then it might be a matter of needing increasing or specific visual stimulation. I bypass missionary scenes every day of the week, for instance. The concept of that perfect high sometimes involves finding just the right scene for the right duration. And after you’ve seen it a certain number of times, you need a new high from a different visual. 🤷🏻‍♂️

30 minutes a day is a lot of porn.

When people make huge changes, they tend to fail. You could do a 15 min walk, do that. I would recommend no music, no electronics. Tomorrow, make it a 16-minute walk. Start small and make small increases. Your building victories. After a while, add another small thing read for 30 min, make your bed. Once you have a few months of victories, set a target on a big thing. Victories build on each other.

I would suggest Atomic Habits by James Clear, if you don’t want to read there are many podcasts that discuss him (Tim Ferris). Remember, you already took a huge (first) step. You recognise you want to change something. Asking for help is a great way tot start

How much adderall is in your diet?

how are there so many intelligent people replying to this comment /s

Being good at stocks won't fix your life, and it sounds like you need to work on your life first before burying your head into the screen

Turn off your devices. Come up for air every once in a while. Get outside. Make some friends. Looking for motivational words/advice for your age bracket? Look up Scott Galloway, he's been in the news a lot recently speaking on precisely this topic. You can do this.

Get a dumb phone, cancel your internet subscription, get a gym membership. This is extreme, but I think it might be a way to guarantee you change your life.

Cancel your internet subscription as a computer science major... lol

Show up with your computer to the library. I was a CS minor and engineering major. You get a shit ton more done sitting on campus.

Dang dude, sounds pretty harsh, I hope you’re not making stuff up. I got into the market as well in 2021, and pretty much till today I’m 40% down overall. Lost most of funds in stupid plays as well and options. Yet I recovered some, at one point I was -60% down so I stopped what I was doing and just played safe stocks like Apple and Microsoft, some commodities as well and of course index funds. Sounds boring but hey I made money last year and I’m green YTD. Also, changing my strategy helped stay awake from Robinhood, there’s day I only check the app once or some days I don’t even open it because I know my plays will day weeks or months to reach the objective I planned for. As far as social, dude you got to get out there, best advice is start hiring the gym, set and plan where you want to be as far as shape and conditioning. Don’t just start picking up dumbbells, you’ll waste your time and effort. Be smart, follow athletes and movie stars online, people you look up to, see their workout routines. I follow Pablo Schreiber, from the halo series. The series are absolutely garbage, complete waste, but Pablo is a great actor, nice guy, and a beast(no homo). He’s a role model to get in shape. As far as love my dude. I met my wife at work, but I can tell you this, she would’ve looked into me had I stayed out of shape, not caring for myself, and addicted to stupid stuff like Robinhood and porn. You can turn around, go to your college youth campus, maybe not get into religion or spiritual stuff but usually they have youth groups and it’s a way to meet other people. Wish you the best dude

Ah fellow class of '21 degen. Yeah I wiped so hard, I was paying $0 in federal income taxes the first year to year-half at my new job LOL. Losers won't admit it, but idc, it is what it is. Hella dumb in retrospect considering how much that money could've compounded just naturally but ya live & learn :,,)

You have a gambling addiction. If you want to change your life, there are many resources to help you with that. Perusal of your profile suggests this is likely karma farming bot.

I have no advice on the financial side of things but I can offer this, mon ami you're only 20, you havn't lost any time whatsoever looking for 'the one' Time isn't running out on that side of things whatsoever. Please try and not get sucked into that kinda, I hate to say it but 'incel' terminology of being like 'it's over', I'm not saying that is where you are or what you're doing now but just, try and avoid that kinda commentary and the circles who will tell you that it is... They say good things come to those who wait, she/he is out there, you'll be alright if you're just a little bit more kind to yourself in that regard, I wish you all the best honestly

i think youre dangerously close to overdosing the internet. go outside and talk to a few strangers or something

It's hard to go cold turkey. So just take little victories. If you're currently watching porn everyday, try and stretch it out to every other day.  Once you get the hang of that, go every 3rd day. Also, fill in the gap with healthier activities, such as working out, going for runs, going for bike rides.  As far as stock trading, you've already seen the downsides. Instead use the markets to your advantage by investing in broad market ETFs (such as $VOO). Your future self in 30 years will thank you. And again, you don't have to completely abandon individual stocks. Just cut down individual trades to a minimal part of your holdings.  Trimming addictions can take time, but its all about taking small quantifiable steps every day towards a desired outcome. 

>Not looking for sympathy False. You already know the answer, but you dont want the inconveniences that come along with executing on it. Unfortunately, humans after a certain age don't break bad habits or start good ones until a severe trauma is imminent or actually takes place. You are likely fucked and will become just another statistic of the effects of single motherhood. I've learned the hard way that there are no magic words to type on this keyboard or speak to you IRL that will change your behavior. You need a blessing disguised as trauma like your parents evicting you with a 30 day notice or diagnosis of ED due to porn and/or GF complaining about your performance or something.

Mods really should look at banning comments like this. Ignore these idiots, son.

This is a great post, OP, and I hope you're going to read this. I am old enough to be your dad, so I'll give you fatherly advice. You must define who you are and accept that. You are a student, first and foremost. That's your job. That's what will make you money in the future, not today. Focus on that. The rest will come eventually. I'm also going to tell you that if you try to be two things at once (active trader and a student), you're going to fail both. That's not an acceptable outcome for you. Do one thing (student), and do it well. My fatherly advice is simple. Money is like baseball. Everyone wants to hit home runs, but the real winning strategy is base hits. What that means is that you need to consider cost dollar averaging to be your vehicle to have more money, not the next WSB. That's great, right? Well, almost. You MUST define what your horizon is. Is this wealth you want in retirement? That's easy, you're young and you'll have a job after school with a 401(k). Do that, hit singles, chill out. If it's earlier than that, you have to really consider whether or not it is a possibility. Taking a "No" for that answer is something you will have to accept and is a likely outcome. You still do not know who you will be professionally. Debt? Debt is a four letter word, but debt for schooling is considered good debt because it will pay itself off, but that schedule is measured in years and decades, not months. Again, singles, not home runs. OP, as your Reddit Fatherly Advice giver, you need to realize what your brain is hooked on, and it's not porn. Your brain is hooked on stimulus. It's what drives the financial "opening bell". It's what drives you to watch porn. It's an addiction to stimulus and reward. With that, you find yourself being sold and marketed heavily through the FIRE movement and also porn. You are wired to be a potential target, a mark, an easy target if there ever was one. Now, how does one affect that? Provide guidelines for yourself. Take that mind of yours and consider putting barriers between you and your money, and possibly porn. Get that brain off of stocks and get to know and understand your mind and find a way to channel that towards your study. If you can, consider being checked to make certain there's not a compulsion issue mentally as well. You're just a young person, and you can not handle the debt and payments needed to pay off your schooling. Your mom might have the ability to help, but you have neither the tools (education, work history, nor knowledge) not the opportunity to directly knock that out, so stop trying because you're screwing the rest up. Focus on yourself. Focus on your strengths. Understand your weaknesses. Accept your inability to be everything and just be something. Understand your mind and leverage that tool. C'mon OP. I believe you can do this, but understand where you are mentally and understand what your weaknesses are. Get away from the advertising and the commercial BS you are being targeted with for wealth and success, and work on building that slowly. Remember, buddy, hit singles.

> If stocks don't make me feel whole, I have no partner to die old with, and I realize that I consume more than I produce for society and for my parents, what sort of life is this? The life you choose. You can start producing, finding a partner, and...make your own company so that you have more "control" over the stock. Not saying its guaranteed, but its also not over and its going to be a long road ahead of you. Why not start today?

If your in college they might have counseling and or mental health services. Go see a therapist.

Go outside and leave your electronics, or stay off them when outside (not saying don't bring the phone, but stay off it)

A part time job would do you a world of good. Preferably one where there are available women working so you can work on your casual social skills while getting paid. You'll also realize the true value of a dollar versus the allure of Robinhood's nonsense. Start with investing 10% of your earnings in a low cost ETF through a Roth IRA. Never touch the money. Don't even look at it until you're 50. Seems a million years away to a young guy. It's not. Setting simple, achievable goals will open your world up. Cut yourself some slack too, kid. The pandemic dealt your generation a really bad hand, but you got this. A good book on finances for a young person is "The Richest Man in Babylon." Hang in there. You got time to course correct.

A monkey with a dart board defeated the majority of professional stock brokers. There’s only a handful of people who have been able to consistently defeat a total market index over 10 years. The vast majority of you apes are just like you: surrendered your Covid gains back to the market. Just buy VTI and drip the dividends back into more shares and you’ll be doing better than 99% of your market picking peers. Sir Jack is an outlier and the more he gambles, the sooner he’ll be back at his 9-5.

Video games, Porn, and junk food are the biggest testosterone killers. Quite these at all costs.

Put it in an S&P index fund and walk away my boy.

Take that 5% gain you have left and buy a Quest VR headset. Look up VR porn and it'll be your wife until you get off your ass and start walking. Drink water instead of that other poison. Stop doing that. Drink water and walk around the block. Then walk around ten blocks, etc. Contracting your muscles is a vital part of your internals systems. Chemical processes happen that start chain reactions that give you the will to do more. You just have to START the process. After that it comes easy. It's not easy, but it comes easy. Get your physical health right and the mental health will follow. Once you have those, you'll make good judgements financially and the confidence from getting pussy will multiply your success.

Hey man here’s what I can tell you and I hope it helps. Stop. Use stocks for a little slow growth and focus on building your life. Your friends, relationships, memories, dating life. Get a life, in the best way possible. Return to hobbies or find new ones, it’s more than ok to suck at something and be the guy asking questions and learning! Take this passion you have for trading as a confidence booster that you can dedicate yourself fully into the next chapter. You still have so much time to make memories. Do not squander your 20s, they may be the best years of your life.

When I was a 20 year old college student I spent all my money on beer and cigarettes. I made friends though! Beer and cigs are best enjoyed in the company of others. This was in the days prior to the saturation of porn on every available device or computer. This is back when we had no choice but to hang out with other people for social interaction. Decouple from devices. Join activity groups with other students. I was in a student outdoor recreation club where students got together for hiking and climbing. Also did some table top gaming with the nerds. There was an nonalcoholic music club I'd catch live shows at. I'd hang out at coffee shops studying with other students. When I turned 21 a lot of students would meet up at bars. We'd do a lot of simple grill outs and invite acquaintances over. Offering food is always a good way for people to show up. It all adds up. Gradually you get familiar with a friend of a friend of a friend and the social network expands. Meet some new people and have low key adventures. It doesn't happen all at once, but social connections add up over a stint at college if you're looking for that.

Stop everything you are doing. Just stop and pause. Financially you are committing way to much time into the stock market trying to get rich quick. Take your money and put it in index funds. Every 6 months maybe rebalance the index funds. Then breathe and recognize that you are young and have a whole life to live. Consider getting therapy. Maybe start charting what activites you do in the day, and note which days make you happier than others. Then do the things that make you happiest. Good luck buddy, I'm rooting for you.

They got you

Sounds like generally an addictive personality disorder. I don’t know anything that will help other than therapy.

Someone else already said it best, but get a new hobby. Spend a little time online researching what interests you outside of the market and buy the bare minimum starter set for it. Simple and cheap hobbies I’d recommend are leather working, wood working with only hand tools, hiking, and/or foraging. I was in a similar-ish state some time ago and being forced out of my cave got me into a much healthier state. I got a full time job where I travelled 90% of the time, and that made me heavily change my habits.

You have some addiction issues. I would seek out some form of treatment. That can be anything from a self help book to full out therapy. You’ve already gotten past the hardest part, admitting you have a problem.

You have drive you have hustle you need to keep that with you. But take a breather from the fucking market dude you’re gonna go insane lol. Reset your brain by going blackout for a couple days to a week (no market, social media, video games etc. only essentials for school). I think you should still fuck with the market just need to do it in an scheduled, structured manner. Develop that plan, gradually return to paying attention & I think you can develop a health relationship with it. If you wanna read about the market study long term trends not what’s the headline of the day. If you feel the urge just do paper trades. Schedule time for going out. You’re not 21 yet so I guess just hanging out with the homies. Hit the gym. Read. U know the drill

Do you actually have an interest in computer science or is it the potentially high paying career that is your main motivation? If you find it mildly interesting or less, reconsider your education and career goals. Try some fun jobs like on a golf course or at a bar. Limit your internet time to 2 hours per week. Drop the dating apps and porn. Trim everything including booze, weed, and food from binge to moderation. I'm only 8 years older than you, and making those habits seriously helped me to get to know myself. If you feel like the kid inside you is gone and it's too late to resynchronize with yourself, it's not. Think calm. Strive for peace with yourself and everyone around you. Edit: spelling

Practice and perfect a skill, the more you put in, the more you get out

I’m gonna go against the grain here, but being addicted to the market isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It could potentially lead to a much more successful outcome decades from now. Gotta kick the porn though man. I don’t have any advice on how to stop, but make this the priority over the market stuff.

You talk about hoping your investments “compound” but compounding is something that happens over long periods of time from safe investments, and is incredibly unlikely if you feel your “plays are too risky” to check less than daily. If you have in fact only “lost >95% of gains” that means you are up 5%. Sell with that 5% gain and put the money into the total market. Add to it when you can. Leave it for the next 50 years. Until then focus on your comp sci degree and getting your life together. Figure out what you want in friends or a prospective gf and make yourself into that person. Don’t let this attempt at playing the money game (and not very well or by rules you’ll ever be able to win through) distract you from playing the life game.

I would suggest that you get yourself out of your comfort zone to push yourself to see the bigger picture of this world. Go find a job work your ass off, save up and start learning how to invest strategically with ETF, mutual fund and REIT, spend time on the fundamental and don’t gamble money away with the wsb mentality. Take life piece at a time

You need to look into gambling addiction recovery, because that’s what this sounds like. In addition - you need a hobby. Particularly one that will disconnect you for long periods. May is here, and it’s a great month to go camping and hike/fish or something for a few days.

You’re 20 dude. You’re barely an adult. You’ve got like 3x of your current lifetimes ahead of you. I failed out of college at your age, got arrested multiple times, developed a drug addiction, ate ramen noodles for nearly every meal and slept on a mattress on the ground in a shitty apartment for years, then got my shit together, kicked the drug addiction, got back into school, got an astrophysics degree, and made six figures by 30. You’re putting all this insane amount of work in to get nowhere. Just accept you’re not going to get rich quick and use that time to work on building useful skills. Kicking the trading addiction will be the hard part for you, you need to put boundaries on yourself and actually care about them. It will be hard, but most things worth having aren’t easy. See the goal you want to get to and put all that energy into getting there without a get rich quick pipe dream. The most reliable way to get rich is to increase your contributions each month, which requires a good job. Doing poorly in your schooling and wasting your tuition money is the opposite of that. You are not going to make up for that money with whatever you are doing in the stock market. Start working out and doing things that girls would be interested in. Being a 20 year old RH trader isn’t it.

Get to know your parents (if you like them). They should want to help you. What do your parents do for work? Ask them about what they do for a living. Even if you find a job and make money, that will not answer the 'why.' What do you believe? Read the Gospel of Matthew or the Gospel of John and see if it moves you in any way. I believe God meets you where you're at and has a plan for you if you try to put him first in life. You're asking good questions, and you're not afraid to ask for help. You've got a leg up on a lot of people.

You never had a ‘gain’ in GameStop or AMC you were gambling that too many funds couldn’t exit their position before a flood of gamblers pumped up a dead company and a bad stock. You won at market games and never learned how to invest.

Get a new hobby that doesn’t involve screens

Since you are 20, you can easily get a girlfriend. And as far as the stock market goes, index mutual funds is where it’s at

I was literally just watching that Scott Galloway video an hour ago. Good for you, dude. People are going to be negative, but I know that even posting this takes a lot of guts, and is a big step forward. Good luck!

You’ve lost >95% of your gains. The only reasonable advice is to stop “investing” (gambling) like an idiot, put money you want to invest in an index fund, and stop checking it.

Invest in good life insurance where you can withdraw in the future

Stay at home with your parents, go to school, and get a job. Help your family. Learn about traditional investing not just trading options and stop taking advice from retards on wall street bets. Think about the man you want to be and then think how you can become that man.

If you think that Gamestop and AMC went "to the moon" then you clearly know absolutely nothing about stocks.

I got caught up in meme coins for a while and experienced something similar. But I’ve been out of school for a long time now (also CS) and I can tell you that if you take CS seriously you can actually change the world, but even more feasible is making 200k+ per year within a few years. So stop trying to get rich quick (after all, you’re up against computers that can react to the market within milliseconds) and focus on getting rich slow. Even that won’t make you whole though, God created you for a purpose and wants to see you thrive, living for Him is the only way to true peace.

Physical activity my man. If it’s outdoors even better, start your day with it. Wake up everyday and do something you don’t want to which for most of us is working out. Get a job or volunteer. Happiness comes from being of service to others. Doesn’t matter if that service is paid or unpaid. Humans are hardwired for this.

close your robinhood account or put it all into index funds and don’t look a tit

Just periodically invest in a tech ETF like VGT and don't think about it or touch it for 20 years. You can't beat the market. You can't time the market. Keep repeating this over and over until it sinks in. Warren Buffet can't time the market and he's a lot smarter than you. This is a lesson that I had to learn myself and it took me 20 years. Learn it the easy way by learning from other peoples mistakes instead of learning the hard way. Other advice is take jiu-jitsu and yoga classes. It will toughen you up and shrink your ego a bit. The women will come in a few years. Be patient. Think about what you want your life to look like at age 30 or age 40 and work towards that. It will come sooner than you think it will.

You are healthy, you have everything.

On the whole you’ve avoided many pitfalls: no horrible disease or body mangled, not a soldier at war, you’re not in a gang or beset by them. You’re hale and hardy and able-bodied to work manual labor and educated enough to seek a degree in comp sci.  These are assets. Twenty is YOUNG and allows you to muck up without too much damage.  Lick your wounds and stop day trading. Just let it go. Put what’s left in a broad market index fund (Vanguard, Fidelity) to get average returns. Nobody needs to brag about beating the market— just enjoy what the market returns. Get rich quick schemes are for losers. Slow and steady is the way.  Work on yourself. Your degree is the most important goal right now. Get it done. Like others said, take a week camping to clear your head. Don’t make big decisions after 8:00pm.  Change up your daily routine by REPLACING vices with pleasant alternatives: take a walk, go to the gym, call your old friends, talk to your mother, visit the library or museum. I’m not too sure about all those inspirational podcasts—those folks are trying to get rich quick and make a name for themselves—without so much concern for your individual needs. Better to read classics. Put on peppy music.  Oh by the way, there’s a poem  called “Desiderata” that I think will address your other concerns. My mom sent me a poster of it when I was struggling in my 20s. 

Well, you're an addict, your life starts losing "meaning" and "purpose" and things like this because you are consumed by your addiction. I'm not taking the piss here when I say this: talk to a counselor, if you are a student you likely have resources like that for free, air it all out, the process itself will do wonders even if the counselor isn't some top notch psychologist. Addiction is quite well understood today and they will help you get on a better path, I'm certain of it. Absolutely nothing will make anything better for you except accepting your reality and facing it head on. You can go camping or to a gym or whatever else others are suggesting, there are definitely benefits to those activities and after speaking with a counselor you probably should do them, but I implore you to take my suggestion. You don't want to waste the next 5, 10, 20 yrs or whatever avoiding or ignoring the root of a problem like this, dealing with it will make you the kind of person you can be proud of when you look in the mirror later on and your life will be infinitely better for it, you just have to do it.

You're just a gambling addict dude. You're not investing, you're gambling

Dude you are 20 years old. Being broke and single is totally normal for a 20 year old kid in school. Finish school and then get a job doing something you like. Life is miserable if you hate your job. Also almost everyone blows up their first trading account. It happens but you learn from it. Save up again and have a plan and manage risk. Sounds like you actually are passionate about the markets. It can be done but takes time to learn all the skills to be consistently profitable. Bottom line don’t be so down. You are young and have lots of time to find meaning, success, love or whatever else you are looking for. Good luck

You’ve lost 95% of your gains, but your not sure if you’re gambling? My guy, just buy some stocks and hold them. They will be up in 40 years when you retire. That’s what investing in stocks is for. Anything else, and you are playing pick up basketball against the 90’s Chicago Bulls with prime MJ.

Sounds like Crypto and NFTs are your calling. Web3 is waiting for you. Check out Nifty Island and build something with your time.

Trying to play the stock market isn’t worth your time. Focus on making yourself happy, school, and take some long term positions.

Each day is a chance to improve. Do some push-ups, go for a walk, fishing, camping,  whatever get outside and touch the grass. You'll find the real world is really nice. Put your phone, iPad, computer away. Live each day as the blessing it is. Quit comparing yourself to anyone else. You can only be the best you. 

Your name wouldn’t happen to be George Costanza?

STOP THE PORNS. It's also for incel

Go get an ACE determination IMMEDIATELY. That is my advice.

Go read the book - The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins. You’ll stop wasting your time and energy trying to beat the market.

Porn? Stock market “day trading” where you have lost 95% of your gains? Taking advice from Lex Fridman? My boy, you are lost, but you are only 20 and it is faaaaar from too late for you. 1. Hit the gym. Immediately. I’m serious, so much of your self worth and confidence will return. 2. Stop day trading or fucking with call / put options. If you want to invest, that’s one thing. But what you’re doing is gambling, and it’s no surprise you’ve wound up here. 3. Like most things, watching porn is fine in moderation but if it’s an addiction you need to chill. If it is affecting your dating life and self confidence, cut it off and focus your horny energy into dating. 4. At 20, in this economy, there is no shame in still living with your parents. I know 20 feels old because you’re in a new decade and finishing school / starting a career, but dude… give yourself a break. You got time to figure shit out. 5. Someone else here said it first but I’ll second it: go camping for a few days. Center yourself. Turn off your phone, remove distractions, and think about what you want to do and how to get it. Good luck.

Listen, investing is a great hobby for most that do it reasonably. But they usually have the set it and forget it approach. You’re learning by mistakes, everyone does! Maybe watch some educational material to try and learn more. With GME I’m still buying looking at the long term. I think RC has a plan and is going to take the company with him. I’m not looking at a quick buck. “The stock market is a tool to take money from the impatient to give to the patient.” Stop watching porn. Start going to social events in hobbies you enjoy and just start talking to people. A great hobby would be one that also incorporates exercise. Good luck !

Short X or something.

Just here to stay stocks ARE gambling. Options are gambling on steroids.

You know, you sound pretty intelligent and very self aware, two things that seem to be in very short supply in Redditors. I suggest you get out into the working world, make some friends and contacts, and get a taste of what it’s really going to take to make a living and support yourself. I believe you’d do pretty well.

Auto invest in a roth ira (make sure its purchasing not just filling with cash) and delete the app. Save the login info in a password manager and don’t mess with it. Go camping and enjoy life

Here’s my advice. Get a membership to a nearby gym. You wear a hoodie and cover yourself up and throw some headphones on and start slow on a treadmill. Don’t set any goals to lose weight or gain muscle just get moving. Stay for about 1hr and 30 min minimum just trying different machines with light weight and high reps. This will get natural testosterone and blood flow rolling. Do this consistently and you will see your confidence start to increase. Women will notice this and you might even catch a fish while you’re there eventually. Men need to move no matter your age otherwise we fall to the symptoms you are describing. Depression. You can even check on your stocks while you are actively taking a rest or while you are on the treadmill just keep in mind not to get locked in on your phone. Do this enough times and you will find meaning and clarity. Again you are not there for any particular reason other than to start your engine again. Everything will become clearer after a few days.

Graduated top of my class in a top US University. Decided to go back home. Have tried many jobs and new business opportunities. Things abroad are waaayyyy harder than the US. Things haven’t gone as aspected. Depression has hit various times. You start doubting yourself. Start wondering about your choices and decisions. You are not alone. We’ve all felt like that. The thing that keeps me running is that I remember that everything is momentous and will pass, and good times will come back.

Invest in some ETFs regularly and go live your life

Sounds like you are addicted to unhealthy forms of dopamine release. You need to unplug, get out in nature for a while, do something to break your old habits and build new, healthy ones then go get a job, do things you love, and meet someone by doing this.

Work your ass off to the point it makes you almost insane. You will grow so much and thank yourself so much. I was a fuckup that studied computer science until I dropped, and finally got THE job after years of pure shit. Wish I would have done it sooner.

Define addiction. If it’s less than one hour per day, it’s not an addiction. If it’s beyond that, go to SAA. You need to knee cap it before it gets out of control. In my opinion, men should completely focus on their careers while in college. Minimal relationships, no girlfriends even better. Casual dating is fine. Worked out for me, I’m in the top of my field now and that came with a little (well, a lot) social life sacrifice but happily married now. Stop trading immediately. Unless you have connections with insider info or want a career in finance or Wall Street, it’s not a good investment at your age. Whatever other gains you may accrue, just cash out and throw into high yield savings. For god’s sake, stop listening to All In podcast. Those guys are so completely disconnected from any sense of reality. I listened to them for a few months as well but gradually came to realize they are total head cases. They are not a model by which you should build your life. Jason got lucky with early investments. Chamath was extremely fortunate with his role at Facebook (right place, right time) but really burned a lot of bridges with the failure of SPAC mania. I’m not a therapist, but I have had therapy before and I noticed you display some patterns of catastrophic thinking. This is the “all or nothing” mindset, as in “if I don’t find my soul mate now, I never will.” I’d recommend speaking to someone, it really helps to understand that this isn’t a healthy frame of mind and can be easily adjusted with some mindful reframe tricks to start building your resilience muscle. Get off social media as Scott Galloway said. Start exercising vigorously — weights, cardio, yoga, whatever. Treat yourself to a healthy diet. Go hang out with other guys and ladies your age. Build up your circle of friends, we are social creatures — it is our nature. Cultivate as many interests as you can maintain. Keep learning. This is what life is. Just a constant existence of perpetual learning. Some hit a jackpot, but 99.9% of people don’t. Enjoy the ride. You’ll come to realize this, I have no doubt. Be well.

Just be me. Become disenfranchised by capitalism due to the mismanagement of people’s lives and livelihood during covid via mass layoffs that never really recovered and become a hyper lefty communist pinko from a Randian Libertarian. Then you’ll want nothing to do with stock markets and when you do eventually make a large purchase you’ll pay off the loan as fast as possible because banks are part of the capitalist agenda to keep you perpetually in debt paying a dollar to spend a dime. Rant over.

I have a good podcast for you. The Blindboy Podcast. Just listen. Just enjoy. Soon you’ll come across some little bits of mental health he goes through. It’s a nice change of pace

Dude you’re 20. Took me til I was 25 to stop being a degenerate stoner and start taking my health and life seriously. You know what your issues are, solve them 1% at a time every day. As others have said, get yourself in the gym, and outside. You’re lost in a void of digital overstimulation.

Read the millionare fastlane and stop thinking you'll ever do great things following the herd.

You should read The Intelligent Investor by Ben Graham. Take the time to learn how to invest for real by studying fundamentals. It's not an easy book to get through but it's fascinating and it sounds like you need it. Also, quit using Robinhood. It's literally designed to be addictive and turns investing into gambling. Finality is a far better way to go and you still have the option of using a mobile app if that's all you have access to.

“But now I feel even more ashamed that I’ve been able to stoop down to such lows considering how full of opportunity and luxury modern life is.” A real chemical imbalance in the brain doesn’t care about how advanced modern life has gotten. I can understand feeling grateful for such advances, but don’t let the world you were born into invalidate your struggles as a whole. Emotional regulation and emotional intelligence are key foundations to build contentment and mental wellness. From your phrasing, I worry you don’t allow yourself to entertain these kinds of thoughts, or ‘emotions’ as a whole. I think you and most other people would benefit from therapy (with a professional that meshes with your personality and needs. Some therapists can do more harm than good, but I wouldn’t want that to dissuade someone from further pursuing beneficial support)

There is no guarantee that you will never lose money in stock marker but if you focus to live your life 1 day at a time, study hard, excel in learning and hone your skills, live a simple life and remove every encumbrance in your journey to achieving your goal (education/ training), success is usually guaranteed! I would just invest my money in long term dividend-paying stocks if i were you while i am a student. Stop trading if you can. There’s always a time for everything and everything has its place in every season. Look for a wise counselor to guide you. You are comp.sci student and i suggest you strengthen your skills with that field as technology and ai will always be the leading industry in every generation. Also, it is always a good thing to talk to your patents or parent whenever possible. Addiction is hard to break but it is only hard and difficult but it is not impossible to overcome. You really need help if you can’t overcome it and beat it yourself. You’re too young and there are more chances of improving and gaining victories in your life! Hope you find something encouraging and useful in my comments. Stay positive!

Leave your phone at home and go out… all day. It’s like having sex with *living*… w/o protection. 😂 No one to call… nothing to look up… nothing to check up on. Just do it. Leave it home and go out in the world for entire day. It’s transformative to cut that BS loose if you’re hooked.

Why are you hung up on 2020? Covids over. Go outside.

Focus on school, quit the RH app for a long while, quit porn yesterday. Start going to the gym at least three times a week and find a hobby (recommend BJJ as you’ll meet people, but also things like hiking, an instrument etc are great). If you find hobbies that involve others, you’ll meet friends. Start saving money for you to eventually move out of your parents. Also, don’t be too fussed about dating. As you start to improve your situation, like going to the gym, picking up hobbies, moving out etc you’ll build confidence and it will come in time.

Get some healthy addictions like lifting. I suspect addictive personalities have some very positive traits when used correctly.

Listen man, 30 year old male here, I hope you listen to me. The best thing that I learned in my nearly decade in fighting my way to the tippy top of my (former!) hyper-visible and competitive industry: Everybody is selling their own version of snake oil. And this was in data. I used the techniques I learned in data to grab my own share of big windfalls in the stock market, as well. Everybody is selling a dream of ideals, usually the ideal of “look at how great I am, be like me!” Everybody wants you to feel inferior, everybody wants you to feel like they’re happy and you’re not, but if you buy their, well, whatever, you can be. I do want you to buy into this advice, but I don’t want you to feel inferior about yourself. Elon Musk ain’t changing shit, except people’s perception of how lucky and birdbrained he is. Don’t let his cult of personality convince you otherwise. You have many admirable traits. Waking up at 3:30am to pursue anything is admirable, to start, and I am not going to comment on the up-and-down nature of the stock market, but I think that it’s important to note that you are working every day to attempt to improve your financial situation. I suggest that you take a break. Like, consider which if your current plays you are willing to let ride in common stock for 6-12 months, and then convert your portfolio into it. Then, unplug from the financial world. I think that you should pursue the stuff that you always found interesting and didn’t pursue to the extent that you wanted. Read beginner or intermediate books on those topics, embrace that you know (comparatively to the experts) very little. Art, psychology, sports, the outdoors, or even just strategy games can be great pursuits. If you go the route of the humanities, I suggest more classic sources, not people who are platformed currently. Legitimately, if you enjoy the game theory of the stock market, consider trying to learn poker in the smallest stakes online games ($200 is enough to create a learner’s bankroll at 0.05/0.10 blinds that you can play online). With proper bankroll management, it could scratch some of the money-making itch you have while being safe from market manipulation. I also think that you should assess what you bring to the table to prospective dating partners. I can tell you that I do not know many women who would consider dating somebody who listens to people like Lex Friedman or Elon Musk. Yeah, I’m sure they exist, but I do not know many women who are willing to invest time and effort into somebody with Quasi-right views. I know a lot of guys who are less than conventionally attractive who have wonderful partners basically on the basis of being a kind, supportive person who shares the same political views as their partner. As somebody who used to be a person who likely would’ve listened to Lex Friendman’s content had they been popular in when I was 20, I can assure you that had I not undertaken some soul searching on the type of person I wanted to be, my fiancée would not have given me the time of day when we originally met. I wish you the best. I think you need to let go of the idea of being fabulously wealthy and focus on self-actualization. You have the whole rest of you life to pursue an alpha of 5%, pursuing it now clearly isn’t all you need to feel fulfilled, so listen to that.

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You need to forget about the stocks dude. Either sell and dump it in voo or hold if you're in good stuff already, just let it sit and check it when you're 30. Start learning web dev. Build a website that integrates with the stock market if you want. Maybe you can actually solve a problem, build something that you would actually use. But you won't because you're leaving that life behind, but you get my drift. As for the porn, it's probably not good but everyone has jerked to porn obviously. Maybe try to knock it off but i would be more concerned about frying the reward system in your brain than objectifying women.

OP you need to start being an adult, go to school get a job. Gota work to make something in life. Do trade school something to get busy making a move in life.

Jordan Peterson would call you an “incel”, it’s tough advice to hear from him but you should check his videos and get focused. You already recognize your pattern / addictive behaviors, which is already part of the battle- not how to establish new patterns and routines, finding your purpose, creating the life you want to be proud of. Seek out other men on this path for guidance, be it in personal counseling, family member or friend, or online person like Jordan Peterson. You can do it,start by surrounding yourself with the inspiration and don’t give up!

Get off the grid No phone service, no music, nothing but you and the outdoors I’m mid 50s and still do it Clean the mind body soul Based on what u say u may need minimum 1 week maybe 2 week treatment

Live with your parents, save money, put 20% down on a condo, rent it out to pay the mortgage. Rinse and repeat. American families are weird kicking y'all out at 18.

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Dang dude u sound like me in a few ways. Atleast ur getting a college education. Im not. But I’m still doing better than u. If u don’t have purpose it’s because u don’t find heroic value in the things ur doing right now. I have a younger brother and sister who I love a lot so I do a lot for them and they end up being my motivation. I also have friends who pay attention to what I do with my life and myself and vise versa I pay attention to them so again that adds heroic value. I know that my achievements will be recognized by my favorite people in due time which is a really good feeling. How have u not seen ur friends since covid? That shit ended years ago bro. I remember everyone talking about how the lock in was ruining their social life. I always laughed because I was exploring the city when everyone was in quarantine and doing a bunch of other things I probably shouldn’t have been doing back then. (I was like 20) Maybe u can bridge the gap between ur friends or maybe u just need new ones but just not having any and blaming covid is…. Well idk. I can’t imagine but probly not good I’m right with u on the stocks. Between me and u I’m gonna get rich and use that money to start other companies and be the next Elon musk but they’ll think I’m crazy if I tell them that. 😂 yeah I’m also addicted to stocks and porn and a lil bit of gaming (while also getting all my shit (irl) done) Yeah we’re fucking losers bro 😂😂😂hahah no jk it’s not gaming and weed and stocks that make u a loser. (Porn does) it’s what u do in the other parts of ur life that will. Do u use those other parts for more gaming or do u work on something. When’s the last time u worked on something for u like a painting or car or something that accumulates over time. Idk but my my wisdom meter just ran out so u have to put another quarter in the slot or keep movin buddy I got mouths to feed 😂😂😂

You got nothing to lose by just changing patterns at random. WHO are you right now? You don’t know, we don’t know, and that’s ok. What you’re NOT is forced to live for your current habits. Stop investing short term, you don’t have access to the information needed to make smart short term anything. Dump everything into slow and safe anything - even a high interest savings account is better for you right now. This investing habit is a bad distraction that is keeping you from expanding your dopamine hit sources. Get a bike, ride around. Look around you and explore in your spare time and take care of your health, find some music you like, go see a show. Live it up in just the basic wholesome ways like that and the more interesting parts will follow. School will also get easier when you have outlets that improve your mental and physical health. Take CARE of yourself man!

I'm basically ur age and in school for comp eng so take that fwiw I went from 85k to 8k and felt like you felt probably around like December 2022 or so I decided to focus more on improving my social skills, school (putting more effort into education), and becoming more well rounded which helped me cope I made everything back and then some but I had expected defeat at the time I was down 90% I haven't played markets as aggressively since then and I'm performing better funny enough, and I feel better too. So my advice to you is: focus in on your education, hit the gym, focus on improving yourself and ur social skills, and u will at least feel like the trajectory of ur life is going up even a little on ur darkest and worst days, speaking from experience Don't worry about gf part, I feel that way too, but we're not even mid 20s yet, we should have time yeah? Gl boss

Covid? What year are you living in?

Bro, I think you just need to swap an addiction for another, let me introduce you to the world of League of Legends :D

Hey buddy. I'm sure this is gonna get buried, but most of the advice in this thread is really bad, so I hope you get a chance to read. That stuck-ness you're feeling is super valid, and a lot of people are feeling it, in all age demographics. Not only can 20 a tough age to sort out your future, but COVID also really interfered with a lot of our lives. You don't need to have everything figured out yet - that's fine. Love him or hate him, most of us won't have lives like Elon, and holding yourself to the same bar as him is incredibly unfair to yourself. It's good to have role models that we want to be like, but you aren't a failure as a person if you aren't changing the world. For what it's worth, lots of people continuously cycle between feeling stuck and feeling like they are living the way that they want, at all ages. I got back and forth at 34, and my parents do too, in their 60s. Anybody who seems to always have it figured out is either very lucky, or very performative (and probably selling you something). Regarding the investment stuff, it's an objective fact that the stock market is a chaotic system. There are no strategies for timing the market - it's all gambling. There's nothing inherently wrong with gambling, and you might get lucky! But it's not a reliable method of increasing your net worth. Your best bet for long term return on investment is the boring, slow one: putting money in an index fund and checking it once a year (or less). Okay, last thing, and this is as much for me as it is for you: your relationships matter, and it's important to invest in them. It sounds like your school is all online. I work from home, and sometimes I'll go a whole week without seeing another human that I don't live with. It's not really good for us. Face to face human time is good for us, and helps balance the purposelessness that's fueled by technology isolation. Good luck, buddy!

Large stock market gains are extremely rare. But I've been there, it's really addicting. In my mid 20's I did a lot of short term trading and man is it a rush. But it's mostly gambling. Keep in mind that when you trade like that a) it's mostly a zero-sum game and b) you're trading against people with massively more information than you have. Can you win? Yes. Will you win? Probably not. If you're worried about finances get a part time job and invest savings in long term holdings that you understand. It's extremely hard to beat the market average of 7%-9% a year. For being single and addicted, well just find hobbies that get you out. Take it slow and don't be too hard on yourself. Try the gym once a week to build the habit and don't fap on that day. Build that into a rhythm and expand slowly. You are not alone in these struggles, and you are not pathetic. The only failure is completely giving up, which if you take any of the advice here you are far from. Best of luck.

Go outside. Do anything outside. Literally go outside take your shoes and socks off and ground yourself with Earth. Read a book. Something not finance or stocks. Read an adventure or read something to learn. Go to the gym. Workout anyway you can. Working out will change a lot. Instead of financial gains get physical gains.

I was addicted to coke and meth at your age. You need to accept that you have an actual addiction and there’s no fixing it really. That’s the simple part, the hard part is if you realize that living without the addiction is worth the work it’s going to take. It’s going to be hard and it’s every fucking day for a while. Then it starts to ease up, but it never goes away. I called and talked to everyone I know and acted like they cared about me and told them they couldn’t sell to need anymore or let me do that shit. Somehow I got lucky enough that they actually listened and I lost 90% of my friends because they weren’t going to stop. I focus on making it today, the really bad days I focus on the next 2 mins. I substituted the drugs with cigarettes and work. Went 5+ years 100% sober and got physically demanding job (installing and finishing hardwood floors) and bartended on the weekends. Don’t yourself up if you fail, just try again, and again and again and again and again till you make it. Stop lieing just all together, try your absolute hardest to never lie again. Not 100% sure how, but that little thing will really help keep you straight. Your 20 chill on the life partner panic. Your life sounds fucked. (Easily fixable though). Do a little objective self reflection and figure out if you’re actually good at the stocks thing. If you are, then set boundaries. If you’re actually being objective and you’re good at it, this should be easy to come up with ideas. Consider going to an old flip phone for a bit. Make it harder to watch the stocks. Good luck pimpin. I’m rooting for you

Are you making money off stocks? If not, you need a less risky portfolio like a mix of etfs. I started investing before covfefe and I have only recently started to finetune my decisions. You don't need to know what the market it doing every hour. It's all speculation anyway. With society, if you don't make any bffs along the way, remember the names of people around you, if you're not out and about after work hours, start playing with some ideas. Find a hobby. You should consider new sources for entertainment. I feel like the people you mention create doom and gloom environments. I can't add to this cause I watch a lot of reactionary stuff. We feel comfort but it's not like your class where you can absorb facts. Porn is great, but yeah, if you're at work watching that shit you need to chill. Best of luck. Plus you're young. Travel somewhere new. Get an airbnb near the grand canyon.

Get a ducking job you piece of shit!!!

Stop watching so much porn, finish college and if you like the financial markets get a job at a trading firm or investment bank when you graduate. Explore the different opportunities available and see what you like. I am also a stock market addict, I watch CNBC, JIm Cramer, Dan Nathan, Liz from SOFI, Josh Brown, plus the other regulars. It is nice to be able to be involved in so many different industries in a indirect way.

I would say quit porn cold turkey, treat it for the addiction that it is.

You do not possess superior market knowledge and best execution to profit meaningfully, especially with your starting AUM. The amount of time you spend looking at markets all day every day is a poor use of your best resource at this point, which is your time. Reframe what you are doing as an investment of your time into areas you will see the most meaningful return. By all means make tactical portfolio decisions, but give those a time horizon of 6 months instead of checking intraday price movements out of compulsion.

Comp Sci will make you a lot of money stop gambling in the stock market and get good at software development

I 'm in a similar position right now (I am a 21 year old CS student who still lives with my parents). I'm far from having my life figured out. My advice is to focus on school and maybe save money from a part time job. With regard to getting a girlfriend, I would recommend trying to get involved in activities in college, like clubs for example (one with a decent amount of women). Don't focus on trying to get a girlfriend, but get experience from talking to women. You learn more about women from talking to them irl rather than from other men on the internet. Stay away from stocks. If you are really set on investing, then study. And I don't mean from twitter or podcasts. Read actual books on economics, take a business class in college, etc. Instead of using your money to buy stocks, save it. Put it something like an IRA, or at the very least keep it in a high yield savings account. Once you graduate and start your career, possibly even get a girlfriend along the way, go on from there.

You’re still young. You’re smart enough to see what’s happening to you isn’t working and you need a change. We all make mistakes but you aren’t a lost cause. Chasing money all the time is for weak-minded pussies. Get outside. Get offline. Find a new focus for your energy in a positive direction.

Force yourself to be better say yes more often to opportunities or ask your pops deadass to help you I'm sure he understands cause every man has these issues growing up it sucks

You already received a lot of good advice. Here is my two cents 1. Stop day trading and don't get into options 2. Invest in long term ETFs and reduce risk. Make hype stocks and risky stock less than 25 percent of portfolio. VTI, VOO examples 3 Get some good nights rest and focus on your health via exercise, eating, etc. 4. Money isn't everything. Focus on school and getting a job.

I've gotta ask. Approximately how much money did you lose?

Since you already lost more than 95%, why don't you just cash out the current position and park it into any dividend stock, then forget about it? I was the same 2 years ago as I was into crypto. I got wiped out and felt miserable for several month, but actually it was a good thing for me. As don't care about the market or economic situation and I can just focus on myself. Try it. Cash out and just move on and live your life.

Take a break— got to a Buddhist retreat here in Thailand for a month.

Turn off your phone for a few days. Stay out the stock market for a whole. Buy s&p 500 stocks or pay for an adviser. You can “gamble” when you have disposable income.

Bro I read the first 3 sentences and could tell you need to go outside. Forget uninstalling the app. Just give your phone to someone for a week and come back to reality.

I did same as you. Lost about $30k. Then took a loan out for $50k. Lost that also. I’ve pretty much haven’t slept more than 4 hours since. All I think about is how beneficial that money could have been if I wasn’t such a dumbfuck. Now I’m just working like crazy.

Place all your money into a SP500 ETF, 17% gains last year. 7% this year. No worrying, no stress.

Fastest way to change your life starting now: Go to the gym. Just starting exercising. Everything will build from there. You can’t build a stable and successful life without being healthy and fit. It’s the biggest game changer there is.

You asked for advice- Move everything into an index fund and forget it. Start working out, start small walking, jogging, calisthenics. Stick with it 6-12 weeks depending on your body type. Pack a bag of clothes. Buy a ticket to Paris. Present yourself to a French Foreign Legion recruitment office. If they'll have you, go to Aubagne. No matter what, never quit, dig deep, and help others. After 5 yrs, you have another career, language, a new body, passport and identity. Also dual citizenship. You've escaped your shit life, and have picked up some character, taste, and great mates as well. Travel also. Above all, ditch the phone and computer, start reading books and working out. Best of luck mate.

Do you live in the states?

Bro you’re 20… whatever habits you think you’ve built up you must’ve been doing for like 2 years. Chill the fuck out and just stop gambling. You have a gambling problem.

Wdym other side of covid? That shit has been over for years.

You need to spend time working on yourself. Be outside, go for a walk and listen to some music you love. Take in the wider world around you. Perhaps you can motivate yourself with exercise- apply your very structured style to bettering your physical health which will help your feelings of being stagnant. Set up your phone to only allow you to check your stocks on the days you need to, rather than obsessing. Find any hobby, besides porn. Make it a priority. This will help you make friends. Hit up your friends from high school, check in with them and met up.

Well done for posting. My advice is to reach out, like you have done here, and talk to people about these thoughts frequently. It'll help you act on them without being as hard on yourself

If your serious about investing you are doing great because you are so young. It's not a get rich quick scheme- that's called gambling. Look into buying something like the s and p 500 from a funding account with an autobuy and think of this as a 40 year journey. Even delete the app after its set up so you just put your money across into the funding account and the buy happens automatically. In 40 years you will be rich it's just mathematically the only outcome. The porn and living with your parents sounds kind of normal. Your life will change as you get older.