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Changing midlife tropes: A transcendence into epiphany
Midlife is often stereotyped as a time of turbulence, angst and chaos, marked by inappropriate behaviours, broken marriages, infidelity and destructive changes. However, this article aims to challenge these stereotypes and present a different perspective. It argues that midlife is not a crisis; instead, it is a transformative journey into epiphany. This transcendent midlife journey is possible through gaining self-awareness, garnering insights and resonating with accumulated inherent (and previously undiscovered) values and desires. This starkly counters dated and prescriptive narratives that, left unchecked, descend into negative midlife tropes. Navigating this necessary period in adult actualisation has the potential to be deeply transformative and equip the adult at midlife to live a more meaningful and aligned life. This article presents a detailed discussion and findings from the journeys of five research participants who transitioned from midlife crisis to epiphany. Each participant's life story is analysed, drawing on themes from existing literature on midlife crises and emphasising the variables of transcendence and evolution into epiphany. The article challenges conventional tropes and describes the unique epiphanies that resulted from these transcendent journeys, providing a rich and diverse perspective on midlife transitions.
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The promise of elsewhere
\"In this comic novel, our hero, Midwesterner Louie Hake, tries to prop up the failing prospects of happiness in his career and marriage by setting out abroad on what he calls his Journey of a Lifetime. Louie is 43, teaches architecture at a third-rate college in Michigan, and faced with a collapsing second marriage and a potentially disastrous medical diagnosis, he decides to undertake a high-minded tour of the world's most spectacular architecture sites: Italy, Turkey, India, Japan. But Louie gets waylaid--ludicrously, spectacularly so. After a stab at a new romance with a jilted bride alone on her honeymoon in London, he somehow winds up in the high Arctic, where the architectural tradition seems sad and laughable. (Turf houses? Corrugated aluminum sheds?) But it turns out there's another sort of architecture at play here--ice bergs the size of cathedrals--bobbing beside a strange and wondrous landscape. As it slowly grows clear, Louie's Grand Journey is a trip through his much-bungled romantic past. Whether pursuing by email his estranged present wife (co-habiting with a sexy playwright in the Virgin Islands), or his first wife (newly engaged to someone else), or an older woman he kissed once a quarter-century ago, Louie is both ridiculous and touching. A novel that is both funny and moving, a serious look into the Midwestern soul in crisis\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Alcohol and Flourishing for Australian Women in Midlife: A Qualitative Study of Negotiating (Un)Happiness
This article responds to calls for empirically grounded and critically analytical research on the sociology of happiness. We explore how 35 Australian women in midlife (45–64 years) navigate alcohol use in the context of gendered lifecourses. In response to emerging themes around happiness in and through alcohol consumption during inductive analysis, data were re-analysed using neo-Aristotlean notions of flourishing. This illuminated alcohol consumption for women in midlife vis-á-vis moment-in-time pleasure, lifecourse happiness and management of gendered constraints. Drawing on Ahmed’s concepts of ‘affective economies’ and ‘happiness and unhappiness archives’ we contemporise Aristotle’s notion of flourishing and argue that changing structures of feeling for women in midlife give rise to differing emotions that attach to alcohol use. Understanding the affective reasons for alcohol consumption among this population provides new avenues to think about how alcohol consumption is purposed by women to make and make do with (un)happiness during midlife.
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Love and trouble : a midlife reckoning
\"At midlife in Seattle, Claire Dederer developed a sudden yearning for jailbreak. In this exuberant memoir, she reflects on two periods in her life uncannily similar in their emotional intensity: her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of unruly and mysterious new hungers, and her recollections of herself as a teenager\" -- From back cover.
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Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century
This paper documents a marked increase in the all-cause mortality of middle-aged white non-Hispanic men and women in the United States between 1999 and 2013. This change reversed decades of progress in mortality and was unique to the United States; no other rich country saw a similar turnaround. The midlife mortality reversal was confined to white non-Hispanics; black non-Hispanics and Hispanics at midlife, and those aged 65 and above in every racial and ethnic group, continued to see mortality rates fall. This increase for whites was largely accounted for by increasing death rates from drug and alcohol poisonings, suicide, and chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis. Although all education groups saw increases in mortality from suicide and poisonings, and an overall increase in external cause mortality, those with less education saw the most marked increases. Rising midlife mortality rates of white non-Hispanics were paralleled by increases in midlife morbidity. Self-reported declines in health, mental health, and ability to conduct activities of daily living, and increases in chronic pain and inability to work, as well as clinically measured deteriorations in liver function, all point to growing distress in this population. We comment on potential economic causes and consequences of this deterioration.
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Why we can't sleep : women's new midlife crisis
\"When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers and the Millennials, Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age, problems that were being largely overlooked. Speaking with women across America about their experiences as the generation raised to \"have it all,\" Calhoun found that most were exhausted, terrified about money, underemployed, and overwhelmed. Instead of their issues being heard, they were told instead to lean in, take \"me-time,\" or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order. In Why We Can't Sleep, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X's predicament and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the abyss-and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring, empowering, and essential reading for all middle-aged women, and anyone who hopes to understand them\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Associations between depression and anxiety in midlife and dementia more than 30 years later: The HUNT Study
INTRODUCTION It is unclear how midlife depression and anxiety affect dementia risk. We examined this in a Norwegian cohort followed for 30 years. METHODS Dementia status at age 70+ in the fourth wave of the Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT4, 2017–2019, N = 9745) was linked with anxiety and depression from HUNT1 (1984–1985), HUNT2 (1995–1997), HUNT3 (2006–2008), and HUNT4. Longitudinal anxiety and depression score, and prevalence trajectories during 1984–2019 by dementia status at HUNT4 were fitted using mixed effects regression adjusting for age, sex, education, and lifestyle and health factors. RESULTS Dementia at HUNT4 was associated with higher case prevalence at all waves, from 1.9 percentage points (pp) (95% CI: 0.1–3.7) higher at HUNT1 to 7.6 pp (95% CI: 5.7–9.6) higher at HUNT4. DISCUSSION Our findings show that depression and anxiety was more common more than 30 years before dementia onset in those who later developed dementia. Highlights Older individuals with dementia had a higher prevalence of mixed anxiety‐ and depressive symptoms (A + D), both concurrently with and more than three decades prior to their dementia diagnosis. Older individuals with dementia had higher levels of anxiety, both concurrently and up to two decades prior to their dementia diagnosis. Depressive symptoms increased by time among those who developed dementia, but not among others. Results were similar for all cause dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and other types of dementia; however, for vascular dementia, the difference was not significant until dementia was present.
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