Age Crisis

March 21, 2023

An age crisis is a period peculiar to each stage of life, which is necessary for the transition to a new level of mental functioning. It is a certain upgrade or improvement of the psychic mechanisms. An age crisis, unlike a personal crisis, comes into everyone's life. One can either overcome an age crisis, i.e. become a better person, or end up defeated, and this failure will immediately or afterwards affect the person's behavior. For example, a midlife crisis (35-45 years old) is a reassessment of life: of the rationality of the choices made ("existential crisis"). During this period, a person has to solve the issue of self-expression, to accept him or herself and to realize his professional potential (what have I already achieved, and what's to be done next?). Have you already experienced a midlife crisis?