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Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis is a 2020 non-fiction book by Ada Calhoun. It builds upon her essay for O, The Oprah Magazine , "The New Midlife Crisis for Women". [ 1 ] Calhoun interviewed more than 200 women and studied social trends to identify new roadblocks for Generation X women. [ 2 ]
A midlife crisis is a transition of identity and self-confidence that can occur in middle-aged individuals, typically 45 to 64/65 years old. [1] [2] [3] The phenomenon is described as a psychological crisis brought about by events that highlight a person's growing age, inevitable mortality, and possible lack of accomplishments in life.
Various symptoms are associated with mid-life crises, such as stress, boredom, self-doubt, compulsivity, changes in the libido and sexual preferences, rumination, and insecurity. [48] [50] [51] In public discourse, the mid-life crisis is primarily associated with men, often in direct relation to their career. But it affects women just as well.
Why millennials ‘can’t afford’ a midlife crisis. Midlife crises of the past were once usually defined by lavish purchases—whether on expensive cars, extended vacations, cross-country or ...
“He would hide under the table,” says mother of little boy who was traumatized after witnessing a car accident.
Only around 30 percent of school districts in the country have anti-bullying policies that specifically mention LGBTQ kids, and thousands of other districts have policies that prevent teachers from speaking about homosexuality in a positive way. These restrictions make it so much harder for kids to cope with their minority stress.
Social stress is stress that stems from one's relationships with others and from the social environment in general. Based on the appraisal theory of emotion, stress arises when a person evaluates a situation as personally relevant and perceives that they do not have the resources to cope or handle the specific situation. [1] [2] [clarification ...
In popular psychology, a quarter-life crisis is an existential crisis involving anxiety and sorrow over the direction and quality of one's life which is most commonly experienced in a period ranging from a person's early twenties up to their mid-thirties, [1] [2] although it can begin as early as eighteen. [3]