But recently, I got an unexpected surprise. The FTX Distribution gave me back that $x,xxx.
Out of curiosity, did you get the full amount back?
I have a similar experience to yours, with only differnece that i didn't get my money back. Back in 2017 I fell for phishing scam, making me losing 100% of the bitcoin I had up to that point, which made like 95% of my portoflio back then (I had a little bit of alts). For a few days I consider leaving crypto alltogether, but luckily I didn't which tuened out to be the best financial decision I ever made.