Same experience with mine. I became serious with bitcoin last year and have made quite a lot. Fast forward to December 2017 and I was feeling like a king. Looking at the few hundreds of investment I thrower in reached its peak and I was worth over 9k. Who wouldn't want to let it double again thinking that how's it should be going. Slow and steady but thanks to the CNN, that's why we are in this mess. Shilling bitcoin all over the news brought this mess upon us. We still would have been on a steady growth.
We all has stories to tell on the experience of 2017 December. It was so terrible that my account that I saw in my wallet at that time was $9800 is now as we speak shrink to a little above $800.That is just a fact but am still holding because it is not yet a loss till I sell them off. December 2018 will soon be here.