First of all that happened to you and to many. Inexperience results in bad decisions, I say this from my own experience.
For approximately 3 years I have been wandering around the crypto world. And just like you I made my investments, without having a clue what I was really doing. Of course it has nothing to do with your investment, for me $300 is a fortune. But what I invested and lost was like an investment for education. Most of the time I bought at the resistance and sold at the support, haha. I sent cryptocurrencies to wrong addresses, I entered into promising projects that in the end were a total failure.
But from all this I learned that you have to do research before doing. Of course now I have more experience, just like what you are sure you have obtained, but these experiences can always help new people.
His situation reminds me of what happened with Bukele when he bought at 41k and they manipulated the price and dropped it to 14k, his detractors told him "you have lost money" the response was "how am I going to lose money if I have not sold any single BTC of the that I bought, what it did was keep buying and then on the rise, all the liquidity in the world. That's how it operated now, I buy, it goes down, I buy more, it keeps going down, I keep buying, it goes up, I sell a little in case it goes down again. buy again, but always trading in BTC. Shitcoins are not even close.