Perhaps it would have been helpful to read up about investment...

Perhaps it would have been helpful to read up about investment strategies in the first place to avoid/minimize pain. There is no value in pain itself. Your "value" actually prevented you from trading by holding that stock. If the pain factor is so important to you - your trading rules would have sold it at a loss years ago - perhaps keep the sell transfer receipt to remind you of the pain factor if that is important to you. Education is all about avoiding the pain of ignorance. That was the pain you really went through IMO. Don't mean to lecture. But reading about investment strategies is very important. Holding on to a dog stock for 9 years defies any trading strategy that I am aware of. Rant over !