‘Midlife Crisis’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist

Q: My husband of 18 years has left me and our four children for another woman who is married and has children. I believe this is all due to mid-life crisis, although he disagrees. According to him, he left me because I did not make him happy, he never loved me, and I was keeping [...]

Q: I’m curious whether the psychology behind aging is different for women than men. Besides the physical changes of growing older, do women change emotionally and psychologically as they age? It seems to me that women start dreading their birthdays after 29. Is this a media-driven reaction or a natural instinct?

A: If the amount [...]

Q: I have suffered from depression in the past, but I believe the depression is just one symptom of a bigger issue. Are there any disorders associated with being unable/unwilling to know who you are or what you want at all? I think I’ve been paralyzed in my life for a long time because of [...]

Q: My daughter is 7 months pregnant and has two children ages 5 and 7. She has been married to my son-in-law for 14 years. My son-in-law has been a great father and has also been really close to all of our family. He has shown himself to be somewhat controlling over the years, but [...]

Q: I am a 56-year-old woman who is intelligent, I have a good marriage, I’m not depressed, I don’t have any prominent emotional/psychological issues, and this is not something that has caused problems in the past. I’m not particularly prone to emotional attachments to celebrities. There were two periods of time in my life when [...]