So.. Would you still call that healthy gambling?
From what I know, healthy betting isn’t really about whether you fade yourself or not. It’s more about keeping your bets small, sticking to your original plan, and not increasing the stake size.
Honestly, this is nothing new for gamblers because most bettors have experienced it before, and I’ve been there many times too. Especially in sports betting, anything can happen, so there’s nothing wrong with betting against yourself sometimes.
You are absolutely right, indeed, healthy gambling have absolutely nothing to do with whether we fade ourselves or not, and when you said its about keeping bets small, the term "term" small might mean a lot of things to different people.. So I would prefer to say that it's about keeping our bets within the amount of money we can comfortably afford to lose.
Small bets (like I said before) might mean different amount for different people, for example, someone might be a billionaire and $100,000 is a very small amount of money for him to lose, meanwhile someone who has barely every touched $5000 obviously will see that $100,000 as a really huge sum of money for a person to risk on a bet once.
So, one of the principles of healthy gambling is that we keep our betting within a range where loses doesn't matter or affect us financially in any way, and also avoiding what ever will lead to betting after loses and so on.