Unfortunately this age group is also the one with the highest increase in suicide rates.

I don’t think newspapers are interested in preventative information. They are intersted in anything that creates a frenzy of sales.

If a few more of these sort of things happen, then the papers will be intereted. Have you had a chat to your local radio station? Sometimes they are more approachable.

Not only is midlife a testing time, but with the recession, it’s middleclass midlifers who will feel the pinch first and hardest. I heard recently that there have already been I think 250,000 jobs lost in the USA, and its early days.

An English man came into work the other day tellling me that one transport company had put off 4000 people. He didn’t work for that company, but he was a truck driver, very concerned very concerned about his own position.

There isn’t too much visual evidence of the recession here in Australia yet, but there is a lot of angst.

I’ve seen segments on Oprah on the joys of midlife, and similar articles in magazines over the last couple of years of my own midlife crisis, and wandered, whether these people are just truly blessed, or totally ignorant.

Midlife for many people is not an easy time. To me its the real growing up. It’s reality slapping me in the face and saying open your eyes and have a really good look.

What you do with what you see is what is important. You keep on doing what you’re doing Laura. Through your blog and now your book you’ve been of interest and value to some 45000 viewers.