European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes april 1978 Snoder Medicine of fhe Ferm midlife crisis in an earlier column i suggested that the term male menopause be be cause there is no physiologic event in men comparable to menopause in another term if not should at least be reexamined is midlife applied to both men and this phrase covers a Host of dramatic events said to be characteristic of Middle aged people Job concerns about children growing marriage stress or sudden knowl Edge that one is after going to become president of the or Foreman of the Facto tie term midlife crisis does have a cer Tain since each of us can think of Middle aged people perhaps even ourselves who Are going through some sort of dramatic change in their the trouble with the is that crises Are not con fined to midlife and the reevaluation of ones own potential is not a sudden event of Middle age for most a Lon term those who tout the idea of midlife crisis would have us believe that some time in their 40s or 50s men and women abruptly have to readjust their dreams the Hopes of the notion that we will conquer the live and become fabulously Are abandoned in an according to this the individual suddenly becomes aware of his actual and this state of awareness produces All sorts of mental event rating in a for most people things just dont work that i suspect most people begin reworking their aspirations by the time they Are in third or fourth we become aware Early on Lor that we Are not mathematical that other kids can read Fink jump higher and look prettier than we the process of childhood and adolescence is in part an accepting by the child of his or her own uniqueness a unique Nen that includes i think it must be a rare individual who Dis covers for the first time at age 40 or 45 that the world is not his the process Olse tag children grow up and then leave borne Doest happen just As we ourselves gradually grow More so the departure of our last child for a or military service is a More symbolic Man real emptying of the the after have been spending less and less tone at Home throughout nor do marriages change people who divorce in midlife Are not victims of mid be but More Likely individuals who have made an attempt to keep a marriage to Gether and eventually severe mental illness such As which is characterized by an inability to handle has its Onset much More commonly in Young than in Middle aged this would probably not be True if midlife were genuinely a time of Radical although certain life changes May seem somewhat More dramatic when they occur in Middle aged they in no More dramatic than the crises experienced by Young people who divorce after one or two years of who abruptly move from one end of the country to the who Sud Denly shift who Are still in the process of finding in even the elderly continue in the process of defining their own change jobs and and evolve More or less Well in acceptance and enjoyment of although the phrase midlife crisis May have some value in placing a dramatic event warns anthropologist Margaret addres sing a group at Ohio state said the United states is facing total internal bankruptcy in two years unless it mends its ways and makes the changes needed to provide necessities for in someones it has the unfortunate effect of giving an individual experience a Pat and somewhat trite Label and allowing it to be categorized As something As trivial As instead of letting it stand As a unique event happening to a unique human  doctor finds stress triggers Many ailments Washington up the minor stress and aggravation people encounter daily can build into More serious problems if they Are not dealt with psychiatrist Roy in a copyrighted interview with news and world head of the Menninger estimates that up to 70 percent of minor ailments such As insomnia and fatigue Are psychosomatic reactions to problems of Menninger said he has studied 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