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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Just "A Little Bit" Depressed? You Might Have Dysthymia |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 2:16 pm |
| Tags: Midlife Crisis, Brain Health, Brain Health, Depression, Mid Life Crisis |
| might not be the stresses of middle age or even a midlife crisis. You might be suffering from an under-diagnosed mental health disorder known as dysthymia. Dysthymia is a form of depression. While the lows aren't as bad as major depression, they are ongoing -- one symptom is that the dark or sad mood persist for at least two years. Here at |
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| Just "A Little Bit" Depressed? You Might Have Dysthymia |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 2:16 pm |
| Tags: Midlife Crisis, Brain Health, Brain Health, Depression, Mid Life Crisis |
| might not be the stresses of middle age or even a midlife crisis. You might be suffering from an under-diagnosed mental health disorder known as dysthymia. Dysthymia is a form of depression. While the lows aren't as bad as major depression, they are ongoing -- one symptom is that the dark or sad mood persist for at least two years. Here at |
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| This Summer's Midlife Crisis Books |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 12:51 pm |
| Tags: Midlife Crisis, Mid Life Crisis, Middle Age, Book Review Tip |
| midlife crisis and summer reading may seem incompatible, what better time to reflect on one's path than from a beach chair with the ocean's white noise blocking out distractions (even if the beach chair is in the back yard and the sound of the ocean is being piped through iPod headphones)? These are some of the most recent titles about |
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| How Buying Tomato Soup Is Like A Midlife Crisis |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 4:45 pm |
| Tags: Midlife Crisis, Happiness, Marriage, Mid Life Crisis, Middle Age, Research, Feature |
| get a second go-around. In life, you can never be sure about getting that second chance. Lastly, the consumers were getting mixed feedback about their choices -- not entirely positive or negative. Here we'd argue that the metaphor is stronger, for aside from a few perfect marriages, "mixed feedback" probably describes most midlife |
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| Roky Erickson's midlife crisis |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 4:01 pm |
| Tags: Midlife Crisis, Brain Health, Depression, Mid Life Crisis, Midlife Crisis Man Male, Discussion |
| in the late 60's, had a midlife crisis just like a lot of people. If you don't rememeber his band, their hit song was "You're Gonna Miss Me." He eventually got into doing drugs while on the road and ended up with a metal disorder, Schitzophrenia. He went crazy and had to be put into a mental institution. Now he has been released and still |
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| Do You Agree With Our Midlife Crisis Movie List? |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 11:42 pm |
| Tags: Midlife Crisis, Midlife Observed, Mid Life Crisis, Middle Age, Feature |
| lists (here, and here) of midlife crisis movies have seventeen entries between them. Bruce Kirkland of the Edmonton Sun nominates six films in his "best mid-life crisis movies" story. Five of them are not on our list. Should we add them? In addition to "American Beauty," which we had on our earlier lists, he adds: City Slickers -- |
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| Not So Happy? You Must Be Middle-Aged. |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 4:43 pm |
| Tags: Midlife Crisis, Happiness, Mid Life Crisis, Middle Age, Briefly Noted |
| things off it. Skip over midlife crisis. Not enough people are listening -- at least in the UK. A new national survey finds that for men, the ages 35-44 are the least happy in their lives. While they rate their well-being in young adulthood at 7.3 on a 10 point scale, it bottoms out at 6.8 for the ten years starting at age 35. Women are |
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| David Duchvony has a very public midlife crisis in Californication |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 8:27 am |
| Tags: Midlife Crisis, Mid Life Crisis, Midlife Crisis Man Male, Briefly Noted |
| throes of a self-destructing midlife crisis who scores more women than writing deals. This being Showtime expect an emphasis on drink, drugs and women (plus a little gratuitous nudity). |
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| Quoted |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 3:22 pm |
| Tags: Midlife Crisis, Mid Life Crisis, Midlife Crisis Man Male, Briefly Noted |
| "If the midlife crisis is a figment of the psychiatric and literary imagination, it's a figment that has migrated to the male imagination at large. The option of fleeing one's responsibilities seems, paradoxically, to grow more appealing as the responsibilities themselves become more rewarding." - Andrew Anthony in the UK's Guardian |
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| Quoted |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 3:22 pm |
| Tags: Midlife Crisis, Mid Life Crisis, Midlife Crisis Man Male, Briefly Noted |
| "If the midlife crisis is a figment of the psychiatric and literary imagination, it's a figment that has migrated to the male imagination at large. The option of fleeing one's responsibilities seems, paradoxically, to grow more appealing as the responsibilities themselves become more rewarding." - Andrew Anthony in the UK's Guardian |
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| David Duchvony has a very public midlife crisis in Californication |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 8:27 am |
| Tags: Midlife Crisis, Mid Life Crisis, Midlife Crisis Man Male, Briefly Noted |
| throes of a self-destructing midlife crisis who scores more women than writing deals. This being Showtime expect an emphasis on drink, drugs and women (plus a little gratuitous |
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| Not So Happy? You Must Be Middle-Aged. |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 4:43 pm |
| Tags: Midlife Crisis, Happiness, Mid Life Crisis, Middle Age, Briefly Noted |
| things off it. Skip over midlife crisis. Not enough people are listening -- at least in the UK. A new national survey finds that for men, the ages 35-44 are the least happy in their lives. While they rate their well-being in young adulthood at 7.3 on a 10 point scale, it bottoms out at 6.8 for the ten years starting at age 35. Women are least |
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| Worst Decade of Your Life? These Guys Say It's Not At Midlife |
| Published: August 22, 2007, 1:30 pm |
| Tags: Midlife Crisis, Aging, Mid Life Crisis, Briefly Noted |
| the worst decade of their life was. Perhaps they expected the answer to be "my forties," since a poll last week reported that in the UK, the male midlife crisis lasts from 38 to 43 (to see why this is probably wrong, see our "What Do You Mean There Are Four, or Five, or Six Types of Midlife Crisis?" and " Does Midlife Crisis Only Happen to |
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| VH1: All Midlife Men, All The Time? |
| Published: August 30, 2007, 6:08 pm |
| Tags: Midlife Crisis, Midlife Observed, Mid Life Crisis, Briefly Noted |
| staring down the barrel of middle age, Scott has come to the end of his philandering rope. At 45, he finds himself at a mid-life crisis of mythic proportions, wondering why he's still single, alone and still unable to settle down and commit to a substantial, meaningful relationship." "Rock of Love" -- Forty four year old Poison singer Bret |
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| No Satisfaction, Please -- We're British |
| Published: August 30, 2007, 7:22 pm |
| Tags: Midlife Crisis, Living Life To The Fullest, Aging, Happiness, Mid Life Crisis, Middle Age, Research, Feature |
| support the notion that midlife is particularly trying, but it would be overreaching to say that the data prove the existence of midlife crisis. A small percent -- under 10% -- of the middle aged do seem to have psychological crises brought on by their advancing age. However, most of these people also had similar crises at other stressful |
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