Midlife Crisis – Are you Having One?

More than just a cliché, midlife crises is experienced between the ages of 40-60. Psychologist Carl Jung was the first to identify it and calls it a normal part of the maturing process. Most people will experience some form of emotional transition during that time of life. Traditionally seen as a male domain, (I can just hear the women say: thank God, men are humans also. They “feel” also!) it can happen to women also.

“We call it a midlife crisis, but actually it can happen at any age, to any gender,” says Anne Devlin, a Sydney-based clinical psychologist. It could be triggered by divorce, a serious illness, redundancy, an empty nest, the loss of a parent. Or it can just occur out of the blue. The important question is: why does it occur? What are the deep-rooted factors that cause many of us, between the ages of 35 and 55, to go through what can be a long, frightening and isolating transformation? Read more…

Tropical Cyclone Phet – It Is Not Too Late

EMERGENCY DECLARED

MUSCAT/KARACHI: Cyclone Phet is heading towards Pakistan at wind speeds of up to 120 kilometres an hour on Friday after passing over Oman, Omani authorities said. “There were two causalities reported recorded so far,” an Omani civil defence spokesman was quoted as telling the official ONA news agency. “The cyclone has weakened in intensity since making landfall last night and its rating has been lowered from factor 3 to factor 1,” on a scale of one-to-five, he said. In Oman, winds were still blowing at 120 kilometres (75 miles) an hour, down from 180 kilometres per hour on Thursday, when alert levels were raised to orange (Regional Times)

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The middle child syndrome – is not just a phenomenon – It actually exists. Middle children often are the forgotten children. Oldest kids tend to emerge strong confident leaders. For example, almost all of the U.S. Presidents were either the first-born child or the first-born son in their families. Adding a middle child greatly impacts the structure of the family and a middle child is created leading to the Middle Child Syndrome. The middle child born often has a sense of not belonging. They try to get the attention of parent and sometimes either fight for it or ward away from the lack of it because many times they feel they are being ignored mostly unintentionally by parents who are more involved with the older child or the youngest one.

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