Midlife Crisis Interview



Midlife Crisis Interview

Introduction

The term midlife crisis is described as a period of personal questioning, which normally occurs to reach half of the age that is life expectancy. Usually middle life crisis is experienced between the ages of 40 to 60 (Doheny, 2009). In this part of the life, the person feels that he has passed the stage of his youth and the coming to maturity. People going through Midlife adulthood attain both losses and gains. The span of middle adulthood is defined contextually, biologically, chronologically. This is the period when men and women rake stock and make effective decision about the rest years of their lives. The midlife crisis, the most important of our life is lived differently in men and women. Emergencies are not the same for one and for the other. All have a professional life on track, with its share of successes and disappointments (www.behappybehealthy.co.uk). In this paper I am going to conduct interview with 3 people who are currently in middle adulthood. In the interview I shall be discussing kinds of issues they dealt with or will deal with.

Interview with A

Age: 52

Gender: Female

Biological Changes: during different stages of life we go through different biological changes, likewise others; I also have entered into middle adulthood and going to biological changes. I have observed that my oestrogen has increased which has increased my physical proportions. Plus I have also gained weight which is prominent in my abdominal region, thighs, hips, and buttocks.

Cognitive Changes: I have started to sleep more as I have entered into this phase and observed that I have become lazy and I have problem of loss of memory I usually forgot things.

Emotional Changes: My mood usually swings due to changes in my hormones. I have become self conscious especially about my physical appearance as I have gained a lot of weight.

Social Changes: once there was time when I loved to meet people but now, i have almost cut off my social life due to many changes I have become very short tempered because of which people usually do not like and I also avoid going into gatherings. Moreover I am very concerned about my appearances which have also impacted my social life.

Like best about your 40s: The best thing I like about this age dialectical thinking, this kind of thinking allows integration between beliefs and experiences with the contradictions discovered and gaining new ...