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[shadowkat]

Hmmm...according to the news, you're the most depressed in your 40s, the big low point is 44. The reason is you start thinking about all the things you haven't accomplished or planned to achieve by now, and are overwhelmed with disappointment and frustration with yourself. In your 20's - everything is wide open and new. And your 30's? You still have time, figure things will work out. Hit 40 and you get depressed. It's apparently universial. Odd. Good news? Apparently it gets better once you reach 50, by that time you start to come to terms with what you have and haven't accomplished in life. So four more years - and I'm over the hump. Just have to frigging survive and hopefully accomplish something during them. From what I've read online? I can't tell if this is true or not.

Dead tired from work. Fell asleep on train as opposed to reading Margret Atwood's The Blind Assasin. Now just want brain dead activity. So will knit and watch comfort tv.
Been enjoying Medium which I DVR'd. Better than it used to be. I think I like it better when she isn't working for the DA, less procedural. Also Angelica Huston is fun as a desperate PI using Allison's abilities to promote herself.

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[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I'm 44 and in a much better place than I was just a few years ago. Yes, there are things that I wanted to accomplish by now that I haven't, but I still have time.

What season of Medium are you watching?

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Well, I am 60, and haven't found a decade yet that didn't have its ups and downs. I liked my 40's a lot more that my 30's; I'd learned some hard life lessons, and things just seemed easier. My 50's were pretty mellow, and so far 60 seems good.
My late 20s and early 30's were the years I would catagorize as the most difficult ones emotionally.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

My younger brother died when I was 44, and that pretty much over-shadowed everything else that year (not surprisingly) so I'm not sure my experience counts (if you are taking a poll).

I'm glad you're enjoying Medium, I think it is the only struggling middle class family ever on TV (somehow only the extremely poor or the very rich/comfortably upper middle class seem to make it onto TV). And, like you, I find Angelica Huston's performance to really be wonderful. She is exploitive and yet believing, making her very layered and interesting.

[fishsanwitt]

When I was 44, I started to learn a new profession :) so there's always hope!

[ladyhelix.livejournal.com]

"once you reach 50 ... you start to come to terms with what you have and haven't accomplished in life."

If it's any consolation - I hit this at 47, so perhaps you won't have to wait 4 more years!!