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I think most of us understand your sentiments all to well. Its clearly a mindset that comes from running bad and its almost certainly the form of tilt I call showdown bias. It's subtle and insiduous and fighting it just a bit too aggressively is a specatcular way to make a downswing worse.

I think that what tends to be forgotten is that when you meet agresion with more aggression the most common result is passivity from the original aggressor. Instead you fear that when you "make a stand" your going to be met with dicey raises and so "just get to showdown and let them do the betting for me" becomes your motto. Result: bad beats hurt more because your not getting value when you should be.

My best advice to deal with it is to drop way down and play a few hundred hands. Hell, play the nanos on stars and run the bastards over for a bit, just get a feel for aggression and value in a context where you won't be cringing when you loose some good sized pots.