As someone who's been investing for many years, I'm fully aware that stock market downturns are completely normal. But that doesn't make them an easy thing to cope with.

At one point earlier this year, my portfolio was down around 30%. Clearly, that's a huge decline.

At this point, I'm looking at more like a 20% drop, since the market briefly rallied (to a point) over the summer. But that's still not a number I'm happy with.

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