Having bad months of climbing

Hi all,

I know that bad days are common in climbing sessions, but the past several months have been brutal.

I used to be consistently climbing v3’s and a few v4’s and now I cannot even flash a v1. My gym has gotten harder with its grading recently but my friends who used to climb around my level have just been able to keep at their same grade and honestly climb even harder. I am the only one who cannot do anything anymore. I’m not one to grade chase but I think it hurts a lot because it feels like I’ve regressed. Knowing what I was capable of before this makes it soul crushing. I will say I just have been through a lot mentally recently which I think had a high impact on it, but it’s sad because it’s gotten to a point where I have a bad relationship with climbing and I don’t want that.

Has anyone else experienced this? What did you do to overcome?

I know usually the answers are typically, target and strengthen your weaknesses, climb more, supplement your climbing with working out, but maybe I’d just like to hear from others who are also struggling and what they did.