Middle Age Blahs Are Universal


	Middle Age Blahs Are Universal

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1-31-2008 1:12 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/21579444-7eed-4c0e-b290-f9e79de2460c/7BA870EF-AC1D-4E68-8213-D96CB8AC46EC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/01/29/middle-age-blahs-are-universal/1847.html" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/01/29/middle-age-blahs-are-universal/1847.html" style="font-size: 11px;">psychcentral.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/01/29/middle-age-blahs-are-universal/1847.html"><H1 id="post-1847"><A title="Permanent Link: Middle-Age Blahs Are Universal" rel="bookmark" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/01/29/middle-age-blahs-are-universal/1847.html">Middle-Age Blahs Are Universal</A></H1></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/01/29/middle-age-blahs-are-universal/1847.html" href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/01/29/middle-age-blahs-are-universal/1847.html" style="font-size: 11px;">psychcentral.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/01/29/middle-age-blahs-are-universal/1847.html"><IMG alt="man" src="http://psychcentral.com/news/u/2008/01/middleageblahsuniversal.jpg" id="newsimg" />A world-wide research study on 2 million people, from 80 nations, reveals an extraordinarily consistent international pattern in depression and happiness levels. 
Amazingly, researchers discovered depression and unhappiness is more common during middle-age for all cultures.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/01/29/middle-age-blahs-are-universal/1847.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/psychcentral.com/img/246F059D-858A-4CAF-9217-B18CD7D38D99" alt="man" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/01/29/middle-age-blahs-are-universal/1847.html"><P>In the paper entitled “Is Well-being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?” researchers from the University of Warwick and Dartmouth College found happiness levels followed a U shaped curve, with happiness higher towards the start and end of our lives and leaving us most miserable in middle age. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/01/29/middle-age-blahs-are-universal/1847.html">They found the same U-shape in happiness levels and life satisfaction by age for 72 countries: </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/01/29/middle-age-blahs-are-universal/1847.html">For the average person in the modern world, the dip in mental health and happiness comes on slowly, not suddenly in a single year. Only in their 50s do most people emerge from the low period.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7BA870EF-AC1D-4E68-8213-D96CB8AC46EC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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