Saturday 6 November 2010

Midlife crisis : 10 point guide to keeping sane

Amplify’d from uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com

Surviving the midlife crisis: a 10-point guide

Feeling anxious and washed-up before you've even hit 40, let alone 50? Then follow our 10-point guide to keeping sane

It's all rather counter-intuitive. Here we are living longer and longer, yet according to a survey published by Relate and Talk Talk, we are having our midlife crises younger and younger. As couples start families later and their careers peak earlier, many men and women are already feeling anxious, stressed, lonely, generally useless and washed up by their late 30s and early 40s, rather than in their 50s.

If you haven't made prime minister or leader of the opposition by your early 40s, then clearly you are an abject failure; and if you have, you will be totally stressed out and it's all downhill from there on anyway. Call it a narcissistic breakdown or midlife crisis, here's a handy 10-point guide to survival.

1. Remember the alternative
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