I think part of the what goes on in that forum is an article of faith: namely the "midlife crisis".
Aside from some conjecture by Freud and Jung and a bunch of pop psychology books mostly from the 50s through the 70s, there isn't data to support anything that unique about psychological crisis around midlife.
Every controlled study done over the last decade has found that people in mid-life are no more likely to be having a personal crisis than people in other age groups, and researchers in the field no longer see the term as meaningful. Rather, they say that focusing on day-to-day stressors and stressful events is more useful for determining treatment.
Even Michele Weiner-Davis refers to the "mid life crisis at any time", so...?
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