How do I break losing streaks?

I have been playing actively for about 2-3 months now. I am rated about 1140, peaking around 1200. I am an extremely weak player considering I have been playing for months. I am trying to improve, but to no avail. There is one thing holding me back, and that's losing streaks. 

Every time I improve my rating by about anywhere from 20 to 80 points, I get hit with losing streaks that bring be back or often way below where I started When the losing streaks occur, it doesn't really matter if the opponent has a higher ELO or not.

I have studied openings and traps, done hundreds of puzzles on Lichess, but no matter what I do to improve whenever I go back to Chess.com and play I always get cursed with losing streaks.

I'm mainly wondering, does this occur because my skill has gradually gotten worse? or is it just a mental/psychological issue.

It's extremely frustrating and I am quite close to just closing my account and quitting Chess.

If anyone has been stuck at a certain rating for a period of time and managed to succeed in improving, I would love to hear your advice/criticism

Thank you!

Hey, I don't know how helpful I'll be but I had a couple of thoughts. First of all I thought your 1140 blitz rating in 2-3 months is very good improvement, tbh. Like I was not at that level yet after even half a year. Plus it sounds like you have a good practice of studying, which is great.

But have you tried some longer time controls? Seems you play 3 min which is quite short and harder to break habits and focus on specific areas. (Don't look at me, I play a lot of 3 min games for fun...) Also, I don't see a lot of analysis reports for your games. Maybe it would help to analyze your games and especially the mistakes, so you don't repeat them. I started doing that a bit more lately (cuz I've also been feeling stuck) and I do think it helps me to be more conscious, like in certain positions I find myself more alert to look for things so I don't repeat the mistakes I often make.

You won't improve playing Blitz. If you are serious about improving, play slow games.

Stop thinking about your rating and play.

I played chess more than a quarter century before I had a rating. 

Start winning.   I hope that helps,  good luck.

Yeah that's the advice I ended up getting from most. I'll start playing some games with longer time controls. And I do analyse my games, maybe not as much as I should but I still do pretty often. I found that I'm making blunders due to miscalculations and time crunches. Thank you for your response !!

I see. By slow games you mean 10 min rapid or above right?

I was just kidding.   However,  the advice of slower games is key.  As ur studying books/videos, etc, playing slow games gives u enough time to think about what ur learning and thinking about how to put those lessons into ur plans.  Playing too fast won't allow u enough time to think so u end up playing what ur used to. U just end up doing the same mistakes over and over, just firmly implanting the wrong chess habits into ur thinking. 

Correct.

I played Daily (three days per move) for improvement.

... and that's why you're already a 900 player while I'm only 2350, yes?

WHAT!? As a person who plays a lot of 1 min (another "fun" tc), I must say I don't think play as fast as you can is a very efficient way to improve

Ah. thank you. I'm starting to get used to rapid games and I already see why theyre better for improving. I can think and improve my technique rather than play sloppy moves with little time to think.

I'll likely try daily games soon too but I'm not sure if I can commit to something a long as 3 days per move.

Thank you for your advice though.

A coach defo helps, thats most people's favourite way of rapidly improving but I'm only 14 years old and 50-150 bucks for an hour lesson is a hefty price to pay.

Maybe when im older

If winning doesn't work out, try whining.

@Khoaque -

Here's an example of the sort of accurate play (99.4% CAPS accuracy) that you can get in Daily.

post great/brilliant moves here note that i need proof of it being grate/ brilliant here's one - Chess Forums - Chess.com

My game is the second one in the thread.

Confidence is a great asset, if it's justified.

If it's justified.

Was she correct?

Hey that's pretty cool!

Your opponent practically played against Stockfish