Thanks for the thoughts/advice guys!

I think the biggest problem with the last few sessions is every huge hand losing at showdown. Like.. literally every hand and every showdown.. regardless if it was all-in, or I played a big hand more passively due to 'monsters in the closet'

Was playing some hands really stupid even, like raising pre and c/c down AA on 578ss Qx board, and betting AJcc on 48KccQQc board and c/c river and c/c in lots of spots I would always b/f, and still losing haha.

The problem with losing every hand at showdown, is that you feel you need to start winning hands at non-showdown if you wanna win anything. Which obviously leads to more bluffing, cause you wanna win some big hands at some point.

Need the patience to ride out an 5-10k hand stretch where you're getting effed at every point, every showdown, but not get impatient and try to combat that with winning all these pots at non-showdown.

Need to play under the assumption that these 5-10 downswing streaks WILL/MUST happen in poker, and just tell yourself that this is your token 5-10 buying downswing... just wait it out and not turn it into a 15-20 buyin downswing which I did.

It's like winter really. We know winter is going to come, and it has to come really. Sometimes its worse or better than others, but its always there. It's not like we fight it by breaking out the blow torches to melt the snow. It's not like we go into denial about it by wearing summer clothes anyway. We just ride it out and hope its short and painfree. Summer WILL come too, they are both inevitable. Just gotta make the most of the summer!

dumb analogy? maybe haha