Does it happen to everyone? I know I’m not very close to the age.i think.im going pick a fight with myself.
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I’ve got a feeling people with sz don’t have that issue as much . As we kinda get the crap knocked out of us by sz. Getting old is just life. I’m 49 well over mid life no signs of it yet.
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Mid-life crisis is holding up less and less under research studies. It’s been found people actually get more content as they age, not less. The “crisis” part of life has been found to be early adulthood when people are establishing themselves, trying to find a career, starting serious relationships for the first time, having their first kids, etc. All that is very stressful. By the time people get to actual middle age they start getting more content because most people have settled down and are comfortable. Learned this in my psych classes & psychology today also has an article on it.
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I had a mid-life crisis after my father died in my mid 40’s and did things I’ve never done before or since. It wasn’t a pleasant time.
I’ve been in a midlife crisis all my life.
you do nothing against it. Finding a little friends seems to help.
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Getting schizophrenia was my mid life crisis.
I am 47. Haven’t ever bought a Corvette or traded my wife in for a newer model.
I think I may be starting to enter into one. At first I started improving with my sz, I began to feel the pain of not having friends and wanted more. I reached out to some old friends and was ignored. I’m just not in their socio-economic bracket anymore. And stigma is a sort of “glass ceiling” that I’ve been bumping up against since trying more. So I guess I have regret that I didn’t cultivate my friendships better. I isolated, but I also feel alienated. Plus I’m not established and my deficits are seemingly to great to hold down a job, and/or connect with women.
It’s one of the ideas that became a myth and now most people believe in it.
Most people don’t have mid-life crises.
They don’t have identity crises when they’re younger, either.
And most teenagers are not rebellious.
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I have known some men that seemed to have started theirs at 18, and others that never seemed to have one. It all depends of the person.
I had something like that between the years 2014-2017. Now I feel a lot better.
I actually questioned my life and decisions a lot and thought about dying and my future and purpose.
Right now I don’t care much. I am pretty content. If only these intrusive thoughts would stop, I’ll feel a lot better.
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/facepalm
I’m sure there’s a more fitting word for that kind of crisis.
Mid-life I guess. That’s why it’s not called senior crisis or teen crisis.
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How about “quarter-life” crisis?
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Starts when you press play. It’s a great song.
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I was thinking more like existential crisis. But I like quarter-life crisis.
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Well that happened Sept through March.
I think I’m in one now, at 35. Debating whether to get into affiliate marketing or programming.
Arguably, my psychotic meltdowns of a few years back were more befitting of the “crisis” term.
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I think it’s reserved for those with enough money and too much spare time! I would have liked to have had one. It would seem like a good thing to reinvent yourself but realistically I think it’s more a myth than a reality!
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I don’t know, after my husband passed and my children went on their own I had some kind of crisis. Think it was sort of a grief, empty nest, existential, hey when did i get older crisis. lol
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