Any other stories of people building themselves back up from zero?
Do not be pessimist. Definitely you can bounce back but with spot trading. Just focus on building a decent capital and try in spot trading. Do not rush yourself so that you may not go back into leveraged trading. Most traders want to recover their losses from same platform but in my opinion that must be a very wrong approach. World is big and the earning opportunities too many more hence we should not think about recovering from same thing.