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What Mid-Life Crisis?
John Beattie explores the feelings and issues that surface on reaching middle age and the experience of the midlife crisis.
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We start losing our hair, things start sagging and our sex drive diminishes. Our children leave us, our parents die, friends have their first heart attacks and career prospects diminish. John Beattie explores the feelings and issues that surface as we reach midlife and the experience of crisis.
It's in the mirror that we come face to face with our midlife and in an increasingly youth obsessed society, gravity starts to pull us down as we struggle to hold back the years.