The story of how I lost 100 ELO in the timespan of like 1 hour

So I was rated 1418 and just got matched up against a 1300, however seemingly out of nowhere for no apparent reason I missed the fact that my opponent could trap by bishop after pushing some pawns on the flank, which is something I usually would have NEVER missed, NO idea what happened. I end up resigning shortly after, but I thought it was fine because I was still like 1399, I could easily climb back up.

Next game I got matched up against a 300. Within a a few moves out of the opening I had an opportunity to win a queen with a discovered check, however the problem was is that I still wasn't 100% in the right headspace after blundering that last game, I was tilted but not in the sense of being angry, my mental state was just thrown off if that makes sense, something just didn't feel right. So I end up taking the wrong piece with the discovered check and I allow my opponent to take the knight that was supposed to take the queen while simultaneously escaping the check. Luckily it was a 300 rated player so I was still able to win the game no problem, but I still didn't feel like my normal self in terms of Chess playing.

Next game I got matched up against an 800, I was 2 pawns up and completely winning, only to stupidly blunder a rook due to me miscalculating something really simple. I ended up losing that game as well. I was 1370 after that game, but I still thought to myself "It's ok I can still climb back up, 1370 isn't that bad".

I made the mistake of playing more games instead of just taking a break and allowing myself to get into the right headspace.

Next game I get matched up against another 800, this time I was able to get a very easy and quick checkmate with an almost perfect accuracy, but something still felt wrong, I still didn't feel like myself.

I played another game.

This time I got matched up against another 800. My opponent played a French and I played a King's Indian Attack like I usually do against the French, and I ended up blundering a pawn pretty early on. This threw me off and made me tilt even more, and as a result I just started blitzing out literally the first moves that came to my head in a fit of tilt, I pretty much wasn't paying attention at all to the moves my opponent was making at all, as a result I missed the fact that my opponent literally trapped their Bishop lmao. Even after blundering that pawn and just blitzing out the very first moves that came into my head, apparently for a several moves I was actually completely winning due to the constant major blunders that my opponent was making consecutively, blundering even more pieces, but because I was in a fit of tilt and just blitzing out moves without thinking about anything or looking at anything for more than a split milisecond, I missed all of my opponents blunders that I could have easily capitalized off of and clinched the game.

Basically that initial tilt just turned into a full on chain reaction of stupid blunders that I NEVER would have made normally.

Hope you enjoyed this story, my ELO is 1342 now.

#1
Whenever you lose a game, stop playing and analyse it first to prevent mental tilt.

First of all, I analyze literally every single game I play, second of all, the initial bishop blunder came out of nowhere like I said, I had just been on a huge win streak before that

Just losing a game in general won't make me tilt, it's the stupid blunders that I would have never made normally that contributed to the tilt