Middle age is found to be depressing. I guess this is the root of my problems.

Middle age is truly depressing, study finds
But good news is that most grow happy again during golden years.

LONDON - Middle age is truly miserable, according to a study using data from 80 countries showing that depression is most common among men and women in their 40s.

The British and U.S. researchers found that happiness for people ranging from Albania to Zimbabwe follows a U-shaped curve where life begins cheerful before turning tough during middle age and then returning to the joys of youth in the golden years.

Previous studies have shown that psychological well-being remained flat throughout life but the new findings to be published in the journal Social Science & Medicine suggest we are in for a topsy-turvy emotional ride.

“In a remarkably regular way throughout the world people slide down a U-shaped level of happiness and mental health throughout their lives,” Andrew Oswald at Britain’s Warwick University, who co-led the study, said on Tuesday.

The researchers analyzed data on depression, anxiety levels and general mental health and well-being taken from some 2 million people in 80 countries.

For men and women the probability of depression slowly builds and then peaks when people are in their 40s — a similar pattern found in 72 countries ranging from Albania to Zimbabwe, the researchers said.

About eight nations — mostly in the developing world — did not follow the U-shaped pattern for happiness levels, Oswald and his colleague David Blanchflower of Dartmouth College in the United States wrote.

“It happens to men and women, to single and married people, to rich and poor, and to those with and without children,” Oswald said. “Nobody knows why we see this consistency.”

One possibility may be that people realize they won’t achieve many of their aspirations at middle age, the researchers said.

Another reason could be that after seeing their fellow middle-aged peers begin to die, people begin to value their own remaining years and embrace life once more.

But the good news is that if people make it to age 70 and are still physically fit, they are on average as happy and mentally healthy as a 20-year old.

“For the average persons in the modern world, the dip in mental health and happiness comes on slowly, not suddenly in a single year,” Oswald said. “Only in their 50s do people emerge from this low period.”

My dog is also weird!

He eats cat shit

Enjoys it too it would seem......

So, you get depressed in your 40s and then get happy in your 70s?? Beth, what this article tells me is that I'm going to be miserable for the next 30 years!

great Yogi,that is great

I'll see you at the meetings.

We'll make it if the depression don't kill us first

Can we bring beer?

"Hi, my name is SB, and I'm going to be 47 this year."

If you say that maybe we'll get sympathy and someone will give us beer.

Free Beer!! Now, if Giuliani had campaigned with THAT slogan...

I still probably wouldn't vote for him but I'd have to think about it...

I can hear SB Giggleing now.

Wow, John Forsythe (Charlie) is 90 years old today.
Anyone remember Bachelor Father?



TIS

Boy is it windy out now. 60mph. Good thing I forgot to put the trash cans out front.

Is he on your dead list?

I finally got a wireless router, and I don't even have a laptop yet! But I consider iPhone to be the next best thing, and it works with that. And my buds can use it, too, when they come over with theirs. And only $40 for N after $20 rebate

Nope. I just know him from Charlie's Angels and Dynasty.

Well im off to the gym got to fit for my holiday in May

You go boy!!!

Feel the burn.

Ive been to the gym im tired and thirsty


Im going for a beer

How many computers do you have in your house?

I had two PCs, but the older one bit the dust. I also have a really old Mac that I don't use. I got wireless so I could use my iPhone better, and guests can bring their laptops...

I'll be over ok?

You'd have to give me a few weeks to clean up first!

So guests can bring their laptops? To do what, exactly, share porn?

I'll be over then Geoff. But I'll have to share someone's laptop.

Me and my laptop have no plans for SuperBowl Sunday....

We have TWO wireless routers.

And HD!!!!

FUCK! My mouse has suddenly started to click twice whenever I click once. What the hell is happening?

Yeah, but you got foot cooties, too.