Definitions for midlife crisis
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1. Midlife crisis

   A midlife crisis is a transition of identity and self-confidence that can occur in middle-aged individuals, typically 40 to 60 years old. The phenomenon is described as a psychological crisis brought about by events that highlight a person's growing age, inevitable mortality, and possibly lack of accomplishments in life. This may produce feelings of intense depression, remorse, and high levels of anxiety, or the desire to achieve youthfulness or make drastic changes to their current lifestyle or feel the wish to change past decisions and events. Studies on midlife crises show that they are less common than popularly believed, according to Vaillant (2012) in his 75-year longitudinal study on adult development, he found midlife crises were rare experiences for people involved in the study. The term was coined by Elliott Jaques in 1965.

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1. Midlife crisis

   Midlife crisis is a term coined in 1965 by Elliott Jaques stating a time where adults come to realize their own mortality and how much time is left in their life. A midlife crisis is experienced by many people during the midlife transition when they realize that life may be more than halfway over. Sometimes, a crisis can be triggered by transitions experienced in these years, such as andropause or menopause, the death of parents or other causes of grief, unemployment or underemployment, realizing that a job or career is hated but not knowing how else to earn an equivalent living, or children leaving home. People may reassess their achievements in terms of their dreams. The result may be a desire to make significant changes in core aspects of day-to-day life or situation, such as in career, work-life balance, marriage, romantic relationships, large expenditures, or physical appearance.

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of midlife crisis in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of midlife crisis in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of midlife crisis in a Sentence

1. Leslie Bean:

   You have to live your dream even if other people think it's screwed up, about half the astronauts thought it was a midlife crisis or something. The other half, the ones that were more right-brain, thought it was a pretty good idea.

2. Dilip Jeste:

   The mid-50s is the midlife crisis period.

3. Matt Welch:

   Strange things happen to men in their 40s, and this was my midlife crisis, i hadn't thought about baseball cards in 30 years. But then I bought one, then two, and it was so pleasurable I thought 'Oh hell, why not?'.

4. Jane E. Brody:

   Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlife_Crisis
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=midlife crisis