#identity-and-expectations

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Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
22 hours ago

I asked 15 therapists what their clients in their 40s most commonly grieve and not one of them said a relationship or a career. Every single one described the same loss in different words. - Silicon Canals

People in their forties commonly experience grief over the gap between who they became and who they imagined becoming, a phenomenon therapists call mourning a phantom life rather than a traditional midlife crisis.
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