Rating has dropped 300 points- from 1000 to 700

I took a couple months break from chess and am losing every game. Going insane watching my rating drop.

This ever happened to anyone?

yeah

You need a few games and probably a few weeks to warm up yourself.

I am assuming you are referring to rapid games, because your bullet rating is a healthy 1042.

Yep! It happened to me, apart from I only took a week or so off! But I reckon after a couple of weeks of getting back into the groove, you'll see improvements again - just give it time. Sucks to experience but just analyse your games, find out what your weaknesses and mistakes were, then do puzzles to improve your tactical awareness here.

A good example for me is when I hit 1000 and then experienced the rating plunge, I realised my defence tactics were absolute trash. Ever noticed how most of the puzzles we do relate to attacking? My tactical awareness for defence was pretty much non-existent. I spent a lot of time working on my defence and then managed to climb back up slowly.

You get rusty after not playing for a week, imagine what does few months cause. Dont worry, it takes time to adjust back to playing chess well again but once it happens you wont have hard time getting those point back!

Emotions get into the way. Self-blame, self-pity, confusion, anger. These negative emotions prevent your brain from freely observing details and making the right decisions. As a result, you find that your next games fall into the same situations where you blunder or miss chances. First you need to regain your mental health and free yourself from negative emotions.

Keep things simple. Do tactic training puzzles, chess.com ones or chesstempo.com. Play dailys and use an opening book (again chess.com or find another alternative). You'll learn better opening style and tactics at the same time. You'll be 1100 in no time, that and just love the game win or loose.

Tilt is normal. I had a horrendous attack of it lately and then bounced back and gained 100 whole points. You'll be ok.

Who will be okay? The guy who had problems 3 years ago? Or the spambot who reopened the topic?

Fair point, one that I falled for hook line and sinker.

Aye loosing 600 elo is a kick in the whatits, I've lost that much before but blame it on being overrated. Never bounced back up but don't care, less rating easier games.