Is 44 the age of depression?

Interesting article, albeit a few years old:


44 is the age of depression, say researchers

The biggest lows of our lives are experienced in middle age, according to new research that concludes that Britons are at their most depressed aged 44.
Scientists believe that although we are closer to death as pensioners and powerless in youth, it is the "reality check" years of our 40s that are the most depressing.
In one of the biggest surveys into human happiness and mental health ever conducted, more than two million people - including a million in Britain - were interviewed by researchers from the University of Warwick and Dartmouth College in America.
They found overwhelming evidence that happiness was U-shaped over life, bottoming out in middle age.
It did not matter whether the subject interviewed was a millionaire banker or a poorly-paid manual worker; man or woman; single or married with children; the result was generally the same.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576872/44-is-the-age-of-depression-say-researchers.html


I've been feeling quite down recently, and it's unusual for me as I'm normally a happy person.
What do others think about the article?

LOAD OF CRAP, actually...

Oblivious in my single years..
Depressed in my teens,
Oppressed a lot of my 20's,
Depressed in most of my 30's,
Happy enough in much of my 40s,
Obsessed  and slowly mellowing in my 50s !

I certainly wouldn't have fitted that reports profile..    

Lol wolf I'd hardly call you mellow

eddie wrote:Interesting article, albeit a few years old:


44 is the age of depression, say researchers

The biggest lows of our lives are experienced in middle age, according to new research that concludes that Britons are at their most depressed aged 44.
Scientists believe that although we are closer to death as pensioners and powerless in youth, it is the "reality check" years of our 40s that are the most depressing.
In one of the biggest surveys into human happiness and mental health ever conducted, more than two million people - including a million in Britain - were interviewed by researchers from the University of Warwick and Dartmouth College in America.
They found overwhelming evidence that happiness was U-shaped over life, bottoming out in middle age.
It did not matter whether the subject interviewed was a millionaire banker or a poorly-paid manual worker; man or woman; single or married with children; the result was generally the same.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576872/44-is-the-age-of-depression-say-researchers.html


I've been feeling quite down recently, and it's unusual for me as I'm normally a happy person.
What do others think about the article?

Cycle of routine, you need some new motivations to break the normality.
I think this happens to many when they have routines and do not keep trying out new things all the time.
So I do believe there is much truth to this, where even more people can get into the habit of watching too much TV for example.


This sums it up well:



Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Brasidas wrote:

eddie wrote:Interesting article, albeit a few years old:


44 is the age of depression, say researchers

The biggest lows of our lives are experienced in middle age, according to new research that concludes that Britons are at their most depressed aged 44.
Scientists believe that although we are closer to death as pensioners and powerless in youth, it is the "reality check" years of our 40s that are the most depressing.
In one of the biggest surveys into human happiness and mental health ever conducted, more than two million people - including a million in Britain - were interviewed by researchers from the University of Warwick and Dartmouth College in America.
They found overwhelming evidence that happiness was U-shaped over life, bottoming out in middle age.
It did not matter whether the subject interviewed was a millionaire banker or a poorly-paid manual worker; man or woman; single or married with children; the result was generally the same.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576872/44-is-the-age-of-depression-say-researchers.html


I've been feeling quite down recently, and it's unusual for me as I'm normally a happy person.
What do others think about the article?

Cycle of routine, you need some new motivations to break the normality.
I think this happens to many when they have routines and do not keep trying out new things all the time.
So I do believe there is much truth to this, where even more people can get into the habit of watching too much TV for example.


This sums it up well:



Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

psychic research.....doing the above and GETTING different results.......

victorisnotamused wrote:

Brasidas wrote:



Cycle of routine, you need some new motivations to break the normality.
I think this happens to many when they have routines and do not keep trying out new things all the time.
So I do believe there is much truth to this, where even more people can get into the habit of watching too much TV for example.


This sums it up well:



Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

psychic research.....doing the above and GETTING different results.......

Clever but are they real results or imagined?

That was from Einstein, which fits most any other aspect.

The article does say though, that your job, status or whether you had children was irrelevant?
It was merely an age issue.

eddie wrote:The article does say though, that your job, status or whether you had children was irrelevant?
It was merely an age issue.

Agreed why I did not even attempt to factor in this part Eddie, my view is on routine, where it can become predictable, where new hobbies can be started etc. I think also the age of 44 is that point where people would start to view this as a sort of half way point or more to the point over that half way point where even though people are living longer, they would now look at the years as being less and less. If you think about it when at 30 having a view they might live to 80, they would still feel comfortable, thinking they could live another 50 years. Where at 44 now they would then think they would have less than the years they have already lived if again the same view of life expectancy was 80 say, with then viewing this as 36 years left. I think this is the point where the reality of time left starts to hit home, where it thus affects them, some ongoing where others adjust and accept this.
I think this maybe a big factor , though myself I excepted a long time ago, my time could come up at any moment and why worry about it, I am going to die at some point so why concern yourself over something you have no control over, better to enjoy and embrace your life.

Brasidas wrote:

eddie wrote:The article does say though, that your job, status or whether you had children was irrelevant?
It was merely an age issue.

Agreed why I did not even attempt to factor in this part Eddie, my view is on routine, where it can become predictable, where new hobbies can be started etc. I think also the age of 44 is that point where people would start to view this as a sort of half way point or more to the point over that half way point where even though people are living longer, they would now look at the years as being less and less. If you think about it when at 30 having a view they might live to 80, they would still feel comfortable, thinking they could live another 50 years. Where at 44 now they would then think they would have less than the years they have already lived if again the same view of life expectancy was 80 say, with then viewing this as 36 years left. I think this is the point where the reality of time left starts to hit home, where it thus affects them, some ongoing where others adjust and accept this.
I think this maybe a big factor , though myself I excepted a long time ago, my time could come up at any moment and why worry about it, I am going to die at some point so why concern yourself over something you have no control over, better to enjoy and embrace your life.

Hey didge x
How did you manage to inspire me and depress me in one go??? Hahahahahahaha
I feel inspired to embrace my life.....what is left of it....!!!

eddie wrote:

Brasidas wrote:


Agreed why I did not even attempt to factor in this part Eddie, my view is on routine, where it can become predictable, where new hobbies can be started etc. I think also the age of 44 is that point where people would start to view this as a sort of half way point or more to the point over that half way point where even though people are living longer, they would now look at the years as being less and less. If you think about it when at 30 having a view they might live to 80, they would still feel comfortable, thinking they could live another 50 years. Where at 44 now they would then think they would have less than the years they have already lived if again the same view of life expectancy was 80 say, with then viewing this as 36 years left. I think this is the point where the reality of time left starts to hit home, where it thus affects them, some ongoing where others adjust and accept this.
I think this maybe a big factor , though myself I excepted a long time ago, my time could come up at any moment and why worry about it, I am going to die at some point so why concern yourself over something you have no control over, better to enjoy and embrace your life.

Hey didge x
How did you manage to inspire me and depress me in one go??? Hahahahahahaha
I feel inspired to embrace my life.....what is left of it....!!!

Thanks Eddie, we both inspire, and why we do is like here, being up front, open minded about allowing people to tackle their fears.....
Anyway you may not even have to think about this.
xx


Scientists from Harvard and the University of New South Wales say they have discovered how to reverse the ageing process.

The research has focused on mice, but early clinical trials have also been conducted on humans.

The scientists said they switched youthful genes on and older genes off, using naturally occurring proteins and molecules.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-04/scientists-reverse-ageing-process-in-mice/5865714

So there's hope yet?
Phew!

I look a lot younger than I am actually. I eat well, and I exercise five times a week.

Whiskey is my lover: we have a good session once a week

Cheer up Eddie, it's the time of year.... getting darker, colder etc.


Could also be vitamin deficiency linked... vitamin d maybe, less sunlight.




Or maybe you detect a disturbance in the force....!?

I think it also depends on how hard you cling to your older views of what your life would be like, etc. I find as I've gotten older, I've had to discard ideas I had about what life would be like when I got to a certain age because they were all based on stereotypes, etc., and that I wasn't doing them because I didn't want to and couldn't imagine myself being happy that way

Tommy Monk wrote:Cheer up Eddie, it's the time of year.... getting darker, colder etc.


Could also be vitamin deficiency linked... vitamin d maybe, less sunlight.




Or maybe you detect a disturbance in the force....!?

Hmmmm now, what is a "disturbance in the force"??

May the force be with you! [don't know what it means either"

ask not for whom the bell tolls......

actually " never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee. . . . "

john donne...Meditation 17

Nuts to it...im 60 and I'm gonna grow old disgracefully. I'm not so much going to be laid upon my bier as slide in sideways (and late) shouting WTF....that was fun...whats next and who's got the calvados....

nicko wrote:May the force be with you! [don't know what it means either"

All due to a half deaf reporter listening to two jockeys talking

one said to the other ...when you cross the finishing line...may the HORSE be with you

eddie wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:Cheer up Eddie, it's the time of year.... getting darker, colder etc.


Could also be vitamin deficiency linked... vitamin d maybe, less sunlight.




Or maybe you detect a disturbance in the force....!?

Hmmmm now, what is a "disturbance in the force"??

Come on Eddie!!!

You never seen star wars...?




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA0kNGaYrtg




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4U-z90B8Ig

victorisnotamused wrote:

nicko wrote:May the force be with you! [don't know what it means either"

All due to a half deaf reporter listening to two jockeys talking

one said to the other ...when you cross the finishing line...may the HORSE be with you

Haha! Also: "Luke, I am your father" is not a real quote

Tommy Monk wrote:

eddie wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:Cheer up Eddie, it's the time of year.... getting darker, colder etc.


Could also be vitamin deficiency linked... vitamin d maybe, less sunlight.




Or maybe you detect a disturbance in the force....!?

Hmmmm now, what is a "disturbance in the force"??  

Come on Eddie!!!

You never seen star wars...?




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA0kNGaYrtg




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4U-z90B8Ig

NOOOOOOOO! I HATED STAR WARS AND WAS VERY VERY HAPPY WHEN MY SON GREW OUT OF WATCHING IT!!!!

I leaned all the names of all his stupid toys and played "Star Wars Lego" for ages!!
God I'm good

And you didn't know what a 'disturbance in the force'was...!?



What did you think I was going on about?

Tommy Monk wrote:And you didn't know what a 'disturbance in the force'was...!?



What did you think I was going on about?

Farting?

eddie wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:And you didn't know what a 'disturbance in the force'was...!?



What did you think I was going on about?

Farting?

Totally unrelated of course, but I had tacos for dinner and chased them with a few pints of Guiness ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chrEsZffie8

Relevant comment at about 1:05

Ben_Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:And you didn't know what a 'disturbance in the force'was...!?



What did you think I was going on about?

Farting?

Totally unrelated of course, but I had tacos for dinner and chased them with a few pints of Guiness ...

Lovely. Erm thanks for that.....

Just been reading this today Eddie, which basically means it really does not matter what we eat or do if we are to live a very long life:




Researchers have just sequenced the genomes of 17 “supercentarians” -- people over 110 years of age -- and conclude that these long-lived individuals likely have genes that promote longevity, but the fountain of youth component remains elusive so far.

The good news, or bad, depending on how you look at it, is that lifestyle choices don’t seem to matter much for those hoping to reach such advanced ages, according to the study, which is published in the latest issue of PLOS ONE.

“Lifestyle choices in terms of smoking, alcohol consumption, exercise, or diet do not appear to differ between centenarians and controls,” wrote Hinco Gierman and colleagues. “Controls” in this case refers to younger people who served as comparisons.

That aspect isn’t too surprising, given all of the interviews with people aged 100+ who say they still enjoy a glass of wine, a cigar or other indulgence, although most indicate that they do such things in moderation.

Gierman, of the Stanford University Departments of Developmental Biology and Genetics, and his team limited the majority of their analysis to 13 genomes from Caucasian females, just to avoid other major differences that might exist between various genomes.


http://news.discovery.com/human/genetics/worlds-oldest-people-are-genetically-superior-141112.htm

eddie wrote:
Lol wolf I'd hardly call you mellow

'EVERYTHING is relative..'.

Whether someone considers themselves more mellow/at peace or more aggressive now, depends on how aggressive/noisy/arrogant/pushy, or otherwise, one may have been in their earlier decades..

Lone Wolf wrote:

eddie wrote:
Lol wolf I'd hardly call you mellow

'EVERYTHING is relative..'.

Whether someone considers themselves more mellow/at peace or more aggressive now, depends on how aggressive/noisy/arrogant/pushy, or otherwise, one may have been in their earlier decades..    

Ahhhh. So you used to howl at the moon huh?

eddie wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:And you didn't know what a 'disturbance in the force'was...!?



What did you think I was going on about?

Farting?

Totally unrelated of course, but I had tacos for dinner and chased them with a few pints of Guiness ...

Lovely. Erm thanks for that.....

It was absolutely my pleasure!

eddie wrote:Interesting article, albeit a few years old:


44 is the age of depression, say researchers

The biggest lows of our lives are experienced in middle age, according to new research that concludes that Britons are at their most depressed aged 44.
Scientists believe that although we are closer to death as pensioners and powerless in youth, it is the "reality check" years of our 40s that are the most depressing.
In one of the biggest surveys into human happiness and mental health ever conducted, more than two million people - including a million in Britain - were interviewed by researchers from the University of Warwick and Dartmouth College in America.
They found overwhelming evidence that happiness was U-shaped over life, bottoming out in middle age.
It did not matter whether the subject interviewed was a millionaire banker or a poorly-paid manual worker; man or woman; single or married with children; the result was generally the same.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576872/44-is-the-age-of-depression-say-researchers.html


I've been feeling quite down recently, and it's unusual for me as I'm normally a happy person.
What do others think about the article?

Eddie, I wouldn’t worry about it because November is known to be a particularly gloomy month for many people. You will get through it just like you will get through Christmas in December and the New Year and also when the bills for all that pop through the letter box in January. It will get better........I promise lol

Irn Bru wrote:

eddie wrote:Interesting article, albeit a few years old:


44 is the age of depression, say researchers

The biggest lows of our lives are experienced in middle age, according to new research that concludes that Britons are at their most depressed aged 44.
Scientists believe that although we are closer to death as pensioners and powerless in youth, it is the "reality check" years of our 40s that are the most depressing.
In one of the biggest surveys into human happiness and mental health ever conducted, more than two million people - including a million in Britain - were interviewed by researchers from the University of Warwick and Dartmouth College in America.
They found overwhelming evidence that happiness was U-shaped over life, bottoming out in middle age.
It did not matter whether the subject interviewed was a millionaire banker or a poorly-paid manual worker; man or woman; single or married with children; the result was generally the same.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576872/44-is-the-age-of-depression-say-researchers.html


I've been feeling quite down recently, and it's unusual for me as I'm normally a happy person.
What do others think about the article?

Eddie, I wouldn’t worry about it because November is known to be a particularly gloomy month for many people. You will  get through it just like you will get through Christmas in December and the New Year and also when the bills for all that pop through the letter box in January. It will get better........I promise lol

the Bills make it better ? think you're wrong there irn

veya_victaous wrote:

Irn Bru wrote:

eddie wrote:Interesting article, albeit a few years old:


44 is the age of depression, say researchers

The biggest lows of our lives are experienced in middle age, according to new research that concludes that Britons are at their most depressed aged 44.
Scientists believe that although we are closer to death as pensioners and powerless in youth, it is the "reality check" years of our 40s that are the most depressing.
In one of the biggest surveys into human happiness and mental health ever conducted, more than two million people - including a million in Britain - were interviewed by researchers from the University of Warwick and Dartmouth College in America.
They found overwhelming evidence that happiness was U-shaped over life, bottoming out in middle age.
It did not matter whether the subject interviewed was a millionaire banker or a poorly-paid manual worker; man or woman; single or married with children; the result was generally the same.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576872/44-is-the-age-of-depression-say-researchers.html


I've been feeling quite down recently, and it's unusual for me as I'm normally a happy person.
What do others think about the article?

Eddie, I wouldn’t worry about it because November is known to be a particularly gloomy month for many people. You will  get through it just like you will get through Christmas in December and the New Year and also when the bills for all that pop through the letter box in January. It will get better........I promise lol

 the Bills make it better ?  think you're wrong there irn

no, I meant after the bills have been paid. Usually Red one's.