Posted on June 16, 2009 in Latest News
Mid-life crisis is described as that period of life where the individual is in the state of self doubt in his or her middle age of life. This is very common in women. Mid-life crisis occurs when the individual moves away from his young age and reaches the threshold of getting old. The transition can be a result of aging, menopause, death of spouse, children leaving home for their job or studies or due to some other reason.
Causes
Women-midlife crisis can be caused due to aging or any other reason in combination to aging. Other reasons can be:
- Change in work place or career
- Change in relationship with spouse
- Children have grown and are now matured
- Due the death or old age of parents
- Due to some kind of physical change in body
- In women the most important reason for such crisis is considered to be ‘Menopause’.
Characteristics
Women suffering from such crisis experience:
- A feeling that they to fulfil some kind of wish or desire in their life
- They will develop negative feelings for their unsuccessful dreams
- Such people have a desire to get back their youthfulness
- They like living alone and like to spend time with their peers.
- These people normally remain in state of depression.
Changes in women
Women suffering from such a disease will exhibit changes in their lifestyle. Like-
- Such women will start taking alcohol or smoking or any other addiction.
- They will start possessing things which are most fond of in large numbers like: jewelery, clothing, motor cars, bikes anything which pleases them.
- They pay more attention to their physical appearance and try to look more and more beautiful.
- In order to feel younger and satisfy their desire they can even enter into relationship with some young person.
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June 18th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
The notion of “midlife crisis” is a myth. It’s an example of a “meme”- “a unit of information in a mind whose existence influences events such that more copies of itself get created in other minds.” Richard Brodie
An example of a meme- “men are the stronger sex.”
Many of the commonly held beliefs, like those mentioned in the above post aren’t accurate. Midlife crisis is far less common than people think, It also collapses or clumps together three or four related issues like depression and re-assessing one’s life. A crisis isn’t age specific. It can occur at any age.
It’s more accurate to say that throughout our lifetime, we experience change and transition. Midlife and beyond can be the happiest, most fulfilling and peaceful time of our lives.
My partner, Dr. Frank and I offer different perspectives on midlife coping strategies, particularly the relationship between happiness and aging- happiness-after-midlife.com