Posted on 01/16/2020 3:00:45 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
The dreaded midlife crisis may come about because it coincides with life’s peak time for misery, a study released this week says, according to a report.
That peak time would be around age 47, Dartmouth College professor and former Bank of England policy maker David Blanchflower claims in a study, after examining trends in 132 countries to compare the relationship between well-being and age.
A typical individual’s well-being reaches its minimum point – on both sides of the Atlantic and for both males and females – in midlife, Blanchflower wrote in his report for the National Bureau of Economic Research.
In order to better understand age’s relationship to happiness, Branchflower undertook the study using prior surveys of self-reported well-being, the report said. In those reports, the results generally argue happiness across a lifetime is either relatively flat or slightly increasing with age.
To achieve a better understanding between happiness and aging, Blanchflower looked at data from 500,000 randomly sampled Americans and West Europeans.
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I was 47 in 2005. Was not miserable then. I've never been miserable.
Contrary to what many of you might think.
And the reason would be???
What is it for women? They’re ALWAYS miserable. Just ask my wife.
I started being miserable in 2008, when Obama became president. I was 52.
Wow. 47 was my worst year ever. 50 may be good or bad. I’ll check back in after my surgery in a few weeks.
Have no idea. some people don’t like being empty nesters, or grandparents, makes them feel old, facing 50 shortly. Mid 40s body stuff may start going for people.
so many potentials. people are such snowflakes today it could be anything.
I guess there may be something to a midlife crisis.
But even with longer life expectancies - 47 seems to be a little past “midlife”.
The longest misery was 2008 to 2016.
The cited age was 47.2 years. I can verify this to be true, at least for me, and nearly to the day of being 47.2 years old. That was quite a while ago now, multiple years. I am no longer ‘miserable’ in the form I was then, but I’m not sure ‘content’ would be accurate for now either.
It’s a long road back when you get to that place where you are ‘miserable.’ It’s not a pleasant journey, even when things are steadily improving. If you’ve never been to that dark place, don’t just flippantly tell a miserable person to ‘be happy’. It doesn’t work that way. Even when there are many things to be happy about. There are demons to fight; and they can overwhelm you.
It’s an individual journey to purposely make the choice to find the good in situations, people, and most of all, yourself, to live a more satisfying life.
Maybe many people experience the grief of parental death around 47? I know it made the last year very depressing for me, working through the grief.
76 to 80 was pretty damn miserable!
Older people ask me if I’m married. I say no. Funny thing is they ALL congratulate me..
I was exactly 47.2 when I got married. How did they know? :)
I don’t think that I’ve EVER been ‘miserable.’ Sad, due to circumstances, as when someone has died, but you can CHANGE just about any OTHER circumstance you might find yourself in.
If you are an American by birth, you’ve got NOTHING to be miserable about. Yeesh!
Ha! So true....
“The longest misery was 2008 to 2016.”
I guess I glossed over that, LOL! It wasn’t miserable for me, personally. More sad, disgusted & angry at what that miserable POS got away with!
I was miserable at 47 because we had a Democrat president and an incompetent head football coach at the University of Southern California.
Technically I was 47 when Obama got elected, but my BD was about a week later.
So yeah, I’m on board with this.
check out the life journey of rick allen... the drummer for def leppard...
A lot of Democrats seem to be perpetually miserable. They’re always whining and complaining about something. Nothing is ever good enough for them.
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