Do You Have These Mid Life Crisis Symptoms?

Mid life crisis symptoms are as varied and wide-ranging as the women who possess the symptoms. Do you have any of these symptoms of mid life crisis?

One of the benefits of getting older is realizing that our feelings and emotions are great tools in helping us understand whether we're on the right track.

When you start focusing on solutions instead of problems you'll be amazed at how much better you feel. If you are facing any of these mid life crisis symptoms are you spending a lot of time focusing on the symptoms? Telling your friends all about your symptoms? Complaining about your symptoms?

Midlife Crisis Symptoms:

• Discontentment or boredom with life (includes lifestyle, people and things)
  
  
• Feeling restless and wanting a complete change
  
  
• Second guessing or regretting the decisions you made in your past
  
  
• Questioning your purpose and the meaning of your life
  
  
• Confusion about who you truly are as a person or where your life is going
  
  
• Fear that time is running out
  
  
• Exhaustion or frantic energy
  
  
• Irritability, anger
  
  
• Compulsive behavior (alcohol, drugs, food, sex)
  
  
• Changes in sex drive (either increase or decrease)
  
  
• The realization that you don’t have what you want and you think you’re running out of time to get it
  
  
• Awareness of your own mortality
  
  
• Feeling burdened or overwhelmed
  
  
• Depression
  
  
• Lethargy
  
  

Midlife crisis isn’t about curing these symptoms; it’s about understanding what these symptoms are trying to tell you. If you just focus on your fatigue or insomnia, you won’t get to the root of the problem.

What are the areas in your life that are screaming for your attention?

• Do you need to improve your marriage?

• Are you dealing with divorce?

• Is your midlife career lacking in fulfillment and passion?

• Are having empty nest issues? Are you unsure who you are now that your kids have moved out?

• Are you having trouble reconciling with your aging body?

• Is your health less than desirable?

Focus on improving these issues and you’ll be so grateful for your midlife crisis symptoms for forcing you to make changes and find out how to be happy again.