...Midlife crisis or transition is a very common effect usually followed by an event. The age is generally 37 to 50 years old, and it is my opinion that a transition or crisis is mostly inevitable. Everyone goes through significant events, some tougher or less common than others, but all the same we have to adjust to these events. The terms midlife crisis or midlife transition is both appropriate for this time in an adult stage of life. I see a transition being more for someone who is adjusting to their children going off to college. Meanwhile, midlife crisis is termed more for a man going out and buying a sports car. Therefore, I see that midlife “crisition” is an appropriate slang I will use now that I have been more informed of the criteria. Some adjustment during midlife is normal; adjustments throughout every stage of life are normal. During this time in life there are many significant events that occur and are the cause to our actions and thus, a “in general” timeframe of common events that occur for everyone, so I do personally believe that it is inevitable to experience some kind of midlife crisis or transition. I hope to fulfill each need as a woman and also as a person that I wouldn’t react in a negative way when the inevitable event comes of my children going off to college or something unexpected occurs. We can never truly prepare ourselves for every event because our lives are not written out on manual though we do have a basic understanding and path that we expect...
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...Midlife Crisis Dalia Brown PSYCH/600 November 11, 2013 Dr. Jody Pendleton Mid-life Crisis As individuals get older his or her emotions and wisdom become more mature. It is a view that mid-life crisis occurs when an individual realizes that he or she is halfway through his or her life. Mid-life crisis is a state of different emotions, such as anxiety and depression. Individuals experiencing mid-life crisis begin to look at life different. Mid-life crisis can last a minimum of three years and some experience as long as 10 years. This crisis typically begins between the age of 35 and 60. During this time people experiencing mid-life begin to think about his or her life, and they things that he or she have accomplished along with the things he or she has failed to accomplish. At this time he or she may decide to set new goals and begin to exhibit different behaviors. Individuals experiencing mid-life crisis place a certain value on his or her life. Williams, (2008) stated, “ The crisis period of an individuals life is a reflection of flaw in the development of an individuals ego at the time of his or her childhood.” In this paper is a summary of mid-life crisis and how it is a normal stage in one’s life. This paper will provide indicators and exhibited symptoms of mid-life crisis. There will also be information on ways to avoid mid-life crisis, sex during mid-life crisis and the experience of mid-life in men and women. Mid-Life Crisis Mid-life crisis is a term...
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...Midlife crisis Asante watts Mrs.BroussardMrs. Broussard Midlife tend to happen as we age males tend to go threwthrough it when they lose a love one or have a lot on theretheir mind, in a female You're making some rash decisions. As a result of soul searching, it's possible that you've drawn some significant conclusions about the state of your life, like perhaps that your marriage isn't as romantic as you had hoped or your career is no longer fulfilling. "The danger is when somebody makes an impulsive decision Acting before thinking about the possible long-term ramifications of leaving your spouse or quitting your job, for example, can lead you down a road of regret. ".”Overall, it's an avoidance of reality that we all have to deal with....
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...Midlife and Menopause Tess Strickland BHSH 371 September 4, 2012 Lisa Kirby Midlife and Menopause During a female’s midlife stage, one of the challenges that arise is menopause. According to the Animated Dissection of Anatomy for Medicine Journal or A.D.A.M., this is a natural event which typically occurs between the ages of 45 and 55 (2012). For some women this is easy process; for others it is quite difficult. How one copes with this process depends largely on their physical, emotional, and mental well being. Women usually ease into the process but some women, who have had a hysterectomy or have undergone chemotherapy for breast cancer, are thrust into it, and may experience menopause at a younger age (A.D.A.M. 2012).The following is an informational piece, which touches on the causes, symptoms, coping strategies, and suggested treatment methods of menopause. Causes The North American Menopause Society or NAMS (2011) defines menopause as “the reduced functioning of the ovaries due to aging, resulting in lower levels of estrogen and other hormones.” This marks the permanent end of fertility for women. Once a woman’s menstrual cycle has stopped for a period of 12 months or longer, they have entered menopause and are no longer able to bear children. According to NAMS (2011) there is a transitional phase called perimeopause; in which physical signs of menopause appear up to six years before and one year after the menstrual period ends. Postmenopause are the years following...
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...Adulthood Adulthood Physical Adulthood is where humans are at their peak of their physical parts of them. This is between 18 to 28 year olds. This is why in football the majority of footballers retire in their 30’s. At age 30 from then our bodies start to deteriorate meaning the majority of the time we get weaker. Both sexes’ eye sights get worse which is why when people get older they have to wear glasses. Men most of the time start to lose hair as well as skin loses elasticity which is why wrinkles. Also by the age of 40 some people cannot hear high pitched sounds as well and the hair is also starting to go grey. When women are 18 and early 20’s, they can conceive the best (at the peak of conceiving). As women get older usually from 25, they start to have higher risks of miscarriages and complications for e.g. the child could have down syndrome. At the ages of 45-55 years women go through menopause. The menopause, also known as the 'change of life' is the end of menstruation. This means a woman's ovaries stop producing an egg every four weeks. She will no longer have a monthly period or be able to have children. Some women may experience unpleasant symptoms such as hot sweats, depression and tiredness. One of the main problems can be loss of calcium in the bones which means that women are more likely to break or fracture bones. For this reason calcium supplements are often taken. Menopause also affects a woman’s emotional development. Older adults are more likely to...
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...LeRoy Karas was a very outgoing individual; he enjoyed playing sports while in school and also went on to college to play football. He grew up with his parents and his younger brother Elroy which he didn’t have much in common with. LeRoy started drinking alcohol and smoking at a very young age. He only went to college until his college eligibility in football was used up because drinking and partying interfered with school. He later went on to marry Rachel and got a job at a road construction company. They were married for seven years when Rachel took their children and divorced him due to his drinking and abuse. In the meantime LeRoy fathered yet another child that he had to pay child support for. Then a few years later he married Jane who was much younger then he was and they had two children together. They were together for six years before Jane left him because he drank too much and he would assault her while he was intoxicated. LeRoy ended up losing his job because he couldn’t keep up with the other construction workers. Then LeRoy fell into hard times trying to find odd jobs and was having financial difficulties, and realized his friends no longer wanted to drink and party with him anymore. At the age of sixty one his doctor told him he had cirrhosis of the liver and that he needs to stop drinking, then he was told he had a form of emphysema. He continued to drink and smoke and lost weight and was unable to take care of himself anymore and was placed in low-quality...
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...It sounds as though Fred is depressed, feeling sorry for himself and may be going “through a midlife crisis” development stage. I imagine that he has lost his confidence because he had been looked over for promotions in the past and competing with the younger generation. I think I would focus on 1) identifying this as a barrier (I need him to identify his for himself) 2) identify his strengths 3) pulling out a career assessment to reevaluate his options. Which would lead to does how his transferrable skills, hobbies lead to opening doors options for possibility redefining himself. I would use this opportunity to do psychoeducation and identify the development stage of life has in now per Broderick & Blewitt. This week has been emotional,...
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...Women’s Midlife Crisis A midlife crisis is defined as personal turmoil and coping challenges in people age 39 through 50 brought on by fear and anxieties about growing older, (Lang, 2001). It is associated with the feelings of impending mortality and death. We hear the term used constantly in reference to men, my focus is how does this affect women. In women we hear menopause as our “midlife crisis”. Menopause has been studied but it’s research is based on the physical changes women’s bodies go through. There is limited research on what our emotional state is during our midlife. That being said, I was wondering besides the hormonal changes and the symptoms of those changes what do women endure emotionally when they are faced with the same aspects of knowing their passed the midpoint. We also must evaluate if we have made our mark on the world and if we have accomplished what we feel we wanted to. So I decided I would like to find out if there are any steps that can be taken to ensure our emotional wellbeing. I know the “empty nest syndrome” is a major factor for many women. I am just starting the realization that my kids are grown and have their own lives to live. They have been my center, what I define my life by. Now I have to move on and accept they still need me but at a much different level. I must find another concentration in life, and I need to make it about me and what I want for me. So my quest is to find out if the rest of my life can be as fulfilling as the...
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...income is great, and the children have moved out. They have a solid marriage, and their relationship is good, though the passionate love has most likely faded as time passed. They still love each other but everyday life is getting boring. Both daughters are intelligent young women; they are the product of the Thatcher period. They are well educated and hard working, and they focus on always keeping Brenda active. When Brenda sees the black dog, they try to find a new interest for her. Even though they try, they don’t succeed, even though Brenda agrees to do the things, she never goes through with it, and she ends up back in the couch. They don’t understand their mother’s issue. Brenda does need a new interest, since she is going through the midlife crisis; the dog symbolizes the end of her young days, and the beginning of a new period of her life. She has already completed all her previous life goals, so she needs to find a new goal, or a new assignment. That’s why she sees the dog....
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...Thinking about social-development issues in adults always leads me down the road of men and their mid-life crisis. This article looks at how a difficult childhood could possibly be a cause for a mid-life crisis later in life. Three cases are examined to support the thesis of this study that an emotional deprived childhood is a contributing factor in a male mid-life crisis. In an emotional deprived childhood the child would develop a poor sense of self. This poor sense of self might be hidden down deep until a certain age like our early 40’s where we begin to reflect back on our life. Missing a maternal love as a child has repercussions in adulthood that can result in no success being good enough to satisfy the adults need to compensate for the missing maternal love. A mid-life crisis is a topic that has always interested me. Some men and women use the term mid-life crisis as an excuse for any bad behavior or mistakes they make in their early to mid-40’s. The cause behind a mid-life crisis has always interested me, knowing that someone did not wake up one day and decide to spend an obscene amount of money on a little sports car or commit adultery after a very loving marriage. In a male child’s life, a mother plays a very large role in creating a healthy sense of self and belonging. It only makes sense that for any male that is lacking a loving maternal relationship will suffer social-development setbacks at some point in their life. When reaching a certain point in...
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...chosen to delve a bit deeper into because of personal interest is the controversial topic of the midlife crisis. I am delving into the topic a little further to investigate whether or not the midlife crisis is a myth or a reality. Although originally used by psychologists to describe a transitional stage in adult development, today the midlife crisis is frequently associated with the man in his 40s who finds a young girlfriend and runs off in his new sports car, or the woman, about the same age, who reinvents herself, buys a new wardrobe and sometimes buys a new face. Is it a myth? An excuse for impulsive, bad behavior and unrealistic transformations, or is it a reality in need of a new name, given recent changes in contemporary culture? According to psychologist Daniel Levinson, the definition of the midlife crisis is a stage of uncertainty and indecision brought about by the realization that life is finite. Before the midlife crisis happens, midlife transition occurs. Midlife transition is a time of questioning that happens around age 40 or 45. During this transition time people begin to focus on the finite nature of life and begin to question some of their everyday essential norms. This issue connects to significant concepts, distinctive features, and critical periods in Lifespan Development. Midlife crisis was first identified by Elliot Jacques in 1965. The term "midlife crisis" became popular after it began to be used by Freudian psychologists. One of the Freudian...
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...difficult to locate a credible article that discussed women in their midlife; which it is why I really liked this article. Life Course Transitions and Depressive Symptoms among Women in Midlife, discusses about different issues that has accrue in adult women through midlife. It also discusses how midlife in adult women can affect their social development. This article will provide you with transitioning stage of midlife in adult women, as well as some of the consequences that can occur as women transition into midlife. It gives you step by step as to how each transition will affect her. This study was done on women from the ages 50-59 to show midlife transition and depression will affect the women. It will also tell you things about the male midlife transition and how they will react differently than women in their midlife transition. * Yes, I find that this article would be a great choice as a main source for a research paper. I say this because; it provides you with credible information and statistics on social development in women transitioning through midlife. It also provides you with information on how to overcome the issues that may affect social development. This resource is very informative and it provides you with actual statistical data found through research studies. It explains how marital transition will be differently when you are a young adult as oppose to when you are in your midlife transition. I believe that social development can be summed up to...
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...According to Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development, there are eight stages in life. The stage I chose was Gerativity-vs.-stagnation (middle adulthood). This stage happens around the ages of 40-60 yrs. old. During this stage of life, people typically experience a midlife transition, which the notion in life is not under ending becomes more important. In some cases they may lead to midlife crisis although, the passage to middle age is typically relatively calm. Have you ever heard of the word “midlife crisis”? Men and women in their late 30s through late 50s suffer from it. The word midlife crisis is the most common phrase we use to describe middle-aged adulthood. Midlife crisis in men As men approaches middle aged some men may go through life changes. Men feel they are limited in life fearing that they are close to death. They also have the fear of aging and wonders if their marriages had run its course. This is the time men start to feel that they have not accomplish their dreams, and starts to wander off in their careers and marriages. When a man hit their midlife stages they tend to dress young, maybe buy a toupee buy big flashing red cars, and start having affairs with women half their age. Middle age is the time when people should be a positive time of life and full of new possibilities. • Job changes • Fear of aging • Not satisfied to accomplish their dreams I would choose this topic in this article to write a research paper because it was very interesting....
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...studies have discovered that apes and orangutans face midlife problems just as certainly as humans beings do. Those discoveries, which were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, might upset tightly held faiths regarding the origins of human pleasure and the forces that cause impact on its peculiar route across the span of life (Jaques, 2002). If relatives of animals share human proclivity for grief, removal and irritation at the midpoint of life, most probably the midlife problem is in fact lead by biological reasons — not the exhausting liabilities of works and family and the genesis identity of our humanity (Franklin, 1999). The experience of chimpanzees dip in pleasure in their mid-age, much in the manner human beings do, recommending a biological interpretation for the midlife problem. Across several traditions, human beings inform a plunge in pleasure throughout their late-40s, a period when they usually sense less contented with their lives in comparison to their older and younger years. Chimpanzees also go through a type of midlife problem, discovered a new study. The astonishing outcome recommends that the blues of middle-age might be an outcome of biology, not tradition, and its evolutionary origins run profound (Ayers, 2008). The main reason for dividing the main body of this research paper as per the format given below is to investigate the various research papers which discus the midlife crisis between apes and humans. The paper will highlight...
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...Abstract This paper discusses couples in midlife marriage that are transitioning to the empty nest. We identify the social aspects of the marriage relationship and the midlife issues most couples face. We look at those that grieve and those that rejoice, when their nest empties, as well as the characteristics of those prone to depression during this major life event. The biological, psychological and spiritual adjustments that take place are analyzed as well as the varied reactions that parents feel during this time of loss in their lives. Lastly, we discuss the role that the Christian counselor plays and celebrate with those couples who have newfound freedom and have reconnected as a result of their nest empting. Empty Nest: Catastrophe or Transition Midlife marriage is a comfortable and rewarding time to experience. Most couples have successfully matured and built a great life together. They have a lot to be thankful for and are proud of the family they’ve raised. One of the major adjustments that occur during this time is when the children they’ve raised reach maturity and leave home. This marks a new beginning for parents known as the empty nest. In the 70s, sociologists popularized the term ‘empty-nest syndrome” to identify parents, especially mothers who experienced depression and loss of purpose and identity when their children left the nest (Clay, 2003). Although women are mentioned as suffering the most when the nest empties...
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