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Midlife Crisis



A midlife crisis occurs in people of middle age (approximately 45 to 65 years). Typically, one is struggling with some sense of frustration at the trajectory of one’s life, a sudden challenge to self-identity or self-confidence, or with an experience of one’s own mortality. Popular representations of a midlife crisis usually involve rejecting some level of personal responsibility in favor of pursuing something impractical but more fun, even if it has negative repercussions on long-established relationships, jobs, and lifestyles. But for others, a midlife crisis can bring about debilitating depression or intense bouts of anxiety. Regardless of its presentation, a midlife crisis can also be the catalyst for a search for greater meaning and perspective.

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Midlife Crisis Needs a Rebrand | Pash Pashkow | TEDxUCLA

What if facing your mortality was the best thing that ever happened to you? Pash shares the funny and touching ways his multiple "midlife crises" became opportunities to rebrand and redefine the phenomenon and start a new life-affirming conversation.

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Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

As seen on OWN’s Super Soul Sunday! The need for change as we get older—an emotional pressure for one phase of our lives to transition into another—is a human phenomenon, neither male nor female.

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The Real Roots of Midlife Crisis

What a growing body of research reveals about the biology of human happiness—and how to navigate the (temporary) slump in middle age.

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FindCenterSo now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

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The Most Productive Years of Your Life May Surprise You | Lloyd Reeb | TEDxCountyLineRoad

Real estate developer and primary spokesperson for Halftime Institute, Lloyd Reeb, dismisses the idea that as we age we become less productive in life.

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Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

What does it really mean to be a grown-up in today’s world? We assume that once we “get it together” with the right job, marry the right person, have children, and buy a home, all is settled and well.

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A Different Kind of Midlife: Facing Feelings and Letting Go of Illusions

By our mid-30s or 40s, when the personality is complete, we have experienced much of what life has to offer. And as a result, we can pretty much anticipate the outcome of most experiences; we already know how they’re going to feel before we engage in them.

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FindCenterThere is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision—possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life—and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties.

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Does Everyone Have a 'Midlife Crisis'?

Midlife crises are a common plot device in films, TV shows, and books. Like most psychological phenomena, though, they don’t always get it quite right.

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Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife

There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the fable that midlife is a time when things start to go downhill for everybody.

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