How Crypto allowed me to start looking forward to the future instead of dreading it

I’ve lived with anxiety disorder all my life, and at different points in the past decade it’s forced me to operate with a constant a cloud of fear over my head. The fear has always been geared toward the future whether it be personal events or global ones such as unending pandemic or environmental destruction.

Right before I got into investing this year and started spending time in this community, I carried around a feeling of impending doom with me everywhere I went. I’m in my 20s and there’s many things that seem to be working against my generation and the dreams of happiness we were told would be waiting for us in our adulthoods.

Strangely enough, as soon as I began investing portions of my paycheck into projects and reading about the technological and societal advantages of DeFi, my grey cloud of anxiety has been greatly reduced. With my intention to buy into solid, promising crypto projects I feel like I can start to make out the blue sky that’s behind the clouds.

Sure, there’s plenty of red days—in the charts and in my personal life—but I can now put just a little faith in the general upward trend of things. I’m less concerned with the whirlwind of emotion brought on by the daily moons and dips… I’m in it for the long HODL. And with that, It’s really assuring to feel like I’m playing an active role in investing for my future.

TLDR: Investing has handed me a much needed dose of hopium when everything else has felt very grim.