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https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/mid-life-crisis-may-be-culmination-of-lifes-peak-of-misery-study-reveals

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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.

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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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His study revealed each country has a “happiness curve” or that happiness follows a U-shaped trajectory, the TV station reported. People generally reach peak unhappiness in midlife, with greater experiences of happiness in youth and old age.

Blanchflower reported for the majority of people in all 132 countries he studied even after controlling for other influences upon life happiness and satisfaction such as income, education level and marriage the theory holds true. This supports the theory age has an effect on overall happiness despite everything else going on in a person’s life.

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“The curve’s trajectory holds true in countries where the median wage is high and where it is not and where people tend to live longer and where they don’t,” Blanchflower wrote in the NBER report.

In the U.S., there was a slightly larger gap between peak male and female unhappiness, according to the report quoted on FOX 29.

Happiness among American males reaches a minimum in their early 50s, whereas women experience peak unhappiness in their late 30s, the report said. In Europe, reported life satisfaction for both men and women hits its lowest point around the mid-40s.

 

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54 minutes ago, mulletpelini said:

misery +2 what do I win?

Yep.  Me too.  That's about the point I started realizing that everything sucked.  I wonder how much longer this will last.  I'm tired of everybody and everything.

*edit - And I'm really thinking of buying a new 2021 Corvette as a 50th birthday gift to myself.  Even if I have to rob a bank or two to afford it.

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48, Married (she does not work, twins 2.5 YO. Making good money, living in a good suburb and, got a classic car and a nice smoker. wouldn't say I'm unhappy but they accoutrements are not bringing the joys you might think they would. neither is the job success. such is life. I have nothing to whine about and should shut up and keep grinding and enjoy it all. 

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I just turned 48 and got divorced last year.  47 definitely sucked but I feel like things are on their way up.  

A few sage posters on the divorce thread advised me that getting divorced sucks - being divorced is awesome.  I'd have to say I concur.  This is going to be a good year.

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46, married 10 years to the greatest woman ever, twins are 18 and starting college in the fall. Wife makes good money, I make less but my job is cake. I can see the good life just on the edge of my horizon and I'm heading straight at it. I have no room to complain, life is good.

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49 and happy as fuck. About to be an empty nester. I am so looking forward to retiring and traveling. I'm also looking forward to watching from afar my kids becoming full functioning adults.

I hit my happiness un-peak in my early 30s. After having kids, I thought "this is it? This is all there is to life?"

After I got out of that rut and realized that yea, having kids and a family is pretty fucking amazing, life has been pretty damn awesome.

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Happiness among American males reaches a minimum in their early 50s

52.  Fuck all y'all.

I can't necessarily agree with this.  More responsibility when it comes to making sure my kids are on the right path and I'm doing right by them, but otherwise things are good.  23 years into marriage, things could be a bit better, but I can't complain.

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The best moments of my life, going back to when I was a child to now - are always moments of struggle, strife, and accomplishment when mind, body, or both are stretched to the breaking point in an effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.  At the time it sucked. 

Conquer your inner bitch.  

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1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

One of the more underrated movies.  I was young and watched that movie, I thought, what the fuck did I just watch? Context matters. Now that I'm older, I understand what that movie was about.

 

Jesus, Billy Crystal's character in this movie is 39? He's in his fucking 70's now. He's older than Jack Palance was during filming.

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Jesus, Billy Crystal's character in this movie is 39? He's in his fucking 70's now. He's older than Jack Palance was during filming.
This phenomenon always fucks with. I'll be watching something and Google it or whatever. Oh I am older than James Gandolfini was for most of the Sopranos. Interesting.
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6 minutes ago, DCA_HORN said:
22 minutes ago, Storm the Field said:
Jesus, Billy Crystal's character in this movie is 39? He's in his fucking 70's now. He's older than Jack Palance was during filming.

This phenomenon always fucks with. I'll be watching something and Google it or whatever. Oh I am older than James Gandolfini was for most of the Sopranos. Interesting.

This is me too. Kevin Spacey was 40 when he made American Beauty. I remember watching that in 1999 and thinking that is one broken down old man. Now i am 51. Just doesn't seem right.

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4 minutes ago, F250 said:

Imagine what it will be like in another 10 years. Threads about nut snacks dropping into the toilet water will go from the lulz section to the can you help me with this section.

 

 

what's worse... they didn't hit the toilet water when you first sat down, but 10 minutes later? ew.

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12 minutes ago, DCA_HORN said:
29 minutes ago, Storm the Field said:
Jesus, Billy Crystal's character in this movie is 39? He's in his fucking 70's now. He's older than Jack Palance was during filming.

This phenomenon always fucks with. I'll be watching something and Google it or whatever. Oh I am older than James Gandolfini was for most of the Sopranos. Interesting.

I didn't know that Christian Bale was in Empire of the Sun. When I found out I was trying to remember which POW soldier he was and then googled it to discover he was the kid and Ben Stiller was one of the POW soldiers.

 

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2 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

52.  Fuck all y'all.

I can't necessarily agree with this.  More responsibility when it comes to making sure my kids are on the right path and I'm doing right by them, but otherwise things are good.  23 years into marriage, things could be a bit better, but I can't complain.

Until you find out your wife is fucking someone else and has been for years.

Or not. But maybe!

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If I had to guess, 47 is likely an age where lots of men experience some of the following, leading to unhappiness.

  • Career stagnation and/or feeling that it's too late to start a new career if laid off, combined with realization that retirement is still 10+ years away.
  • Kids are aged 10-20 and still financially dependent, leading to constant money worries.
  • Marital discord/lack of sex/resentment of spouse following ~15 years of marriage, if not already divorced.
  • Weight gain, balding/graying hair and realizing that your youth is long behind you.

 

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1 hour ago, Storm the Field said:

If I had to guess, 47 is likely an age where lots of men experience some of the following, leading to unhappiness.

  • Career stagnation and/or feeling that it's too late to start a new career if laid off, combined with realization that retirement is still 10+ years away.
  • Kids are aged 10-20 and still financially dependent, leading to constant money worries.
  • Marital discord/lack of sex/resentment of spouse following ~15 years of marriage, if not already divorced.
  • Weight gain, balding/graying hair and realizing that your youth is long behind you.

 

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1 hour ago, davidg said:

Slope of that late life happiness uptake directly proportional to Viagra Rx rates.

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8 hours ago, Iceman said:

Just realized this was put out by Foxnews.  They must be polling their own viewers.  Regardless of politics, that's right in the sweet spot for "pissed off at the world." 

They just cut-and-pasted bits from a news release. The story is all over the webs.

Anyway, I turned 47 in early Nov so that makes me about 47.2 years old today. Sheesh.

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