For many of us, adult-onset depression and the anxieties that torment us are rooted into a decades-long trend of declining life-satisfaction that has only been realized now as ex-caregivers.
Many new empty-nesters look at their new situation and immediately correlate and blame their newfound scary emotions on life after children or midlife itself.
I’m having a midlife crisis, but that’s to be expected, so what really is there to do?
![Photo of an older couple holding each other and enjoying a boat trip. Working with a therapist will challenge you to dispel the fiction that midlife is supposed to be a time of crisis. Find happiness and excitement in this new phase of your life.](https://deepconnectionscounseling.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/deep-768x512.jpg)