Catching up with other things that gives you some relaxations will help you to strive back, most short term traders stress itself whenever they've seen that the market is not favoring their position in order to lessen the burden they've needed to find some other activities to freshen their mindset and recreate another strategy. It's best to find additional activities that will keep your mind active will be more helpful to keep adjusting for the best outcome of your business inside trading.
Actually this is the risk for the trader, they won't ever be avoid it, but if this situation comes it is depend on the trader itself how to deal the situation. If they are greedy, I mean they are continue to stay on the market although they have met a lot of lost then what ever the strategy thay make will be useless, their focus just to recover their money.
I'll be agree with what you say, because I often to do that thing when I found a lot of lost and I my mind just thought how to recover it. Greatfully, I can manage it and obey what my common sense says. I must come out from the situation and find some places and some activities who will make me forget to my money that have lost, and it was work for me.