Are those stock options for a public company? If not, I don't know if this would cheer you up or not, but you should have assumed they're worth zero anyways.

Are those stock options for a public company? If not, I don't know if this would cheer you up or not, but you should have assumed they're worth zero anyways. With respect to the market it goes up and it goes down. If you have a good portfolio and you're invested for the long term just ignore it. To help you feel better look at how quickly the market recovered in the dot com bust, and in 2009. Keep dollar cost averaging. Never put any money into the market you might need in the short or medium term, stocks are for long term investment.