Have you heard about a “Midlife crisis” ...

  

Mid-Life Crisis is a term that was first made up by Elliott Jaques in a paper called "Death and the Mid-Life Crisis" published by “The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis in 1965”. It is a time in which grown-ups come to realize their own shortness. A mid-life crisis may occur when a person meets within themselves because of unrealized goals and insights. When experiencing a mid-life crisis, people may re-evaluate their endeavors in terms of their dreams.The result may be a desire to make substantial changes in areas such as career, work-life balance, relationships, spending or even physical appearance. The situations lead to midlife crisis is typical to ones lives

Signs of Midlife crisis

•  Deep sense of responsibility for not accomplishing personal goals
• Fear of shame because of more successful colleagues/ friends
• Wish to achieve the feeling of youth
• Want to spend more time alone
• Confusion, hatred or anger due to work, health, economic, or social status
• Striving to correct the missteps they feel they have taken early in life
• Feeling that your life no longer fits you

How to manage midlife crisis?

 Do not give up hope. You deserve a second chance at your own life. Even if it is small, hug to whatever hope you can find. It will save you.

1. Find a new activity, try many different things until you find a perfect fit.
2. Frame yourself with constructive people, find some new friends.
3. Seek professional help; when you are down and out, an impartial neutral advice from a professional will get you back on track
4. Believe in your capabilities; do not ever stop trusting in your capability to master a crisis. You can /will do it.
5. Change what is not working. You have to change. Hard? Yes. Possible? Absolutely. Challenge all the things that are not working, one at a time.
6. Figure out what you really want. Keep a table, do whatever you need to do, in order to figure out what you really are and truly want in your life.
7. Take it one day at a time as it comes and, little by little, you will find yourself putting that crisis further and further behind you.
8. Treat your body right. What you need is a body that is in peak physical condition so it can help you battle those unpleasant emotions
9. Join a club or group. There may be people as you are. Find them and work together to conquer your crunches. However, it does have to be something that will inspire, uplift, and support you.