quarterlife crisis


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quarterlife crisis

n
(Psychology) a crisis that may be experienced in one's twenties, involving anxiety over the direction and quality of one's life
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Actress Emily Atack, who was in I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here, said recently that young people like her were in a "quarterlife crisis club" and "forced into adulthood when we still feel like teenagers".
He had what he now calls a "quarterlife crisis", after claiming he'd started drinking "Pernod instead of sherry for breakfast".
In the age of millennials, where choice is virtually unlimited, choosing a career path is a quarterlife crisis waiting to happen.
Keira Knightley stars as a 27-year-old having a quarterlife crisis
A WOMAN in the throes of a quarterlife crisis abandons her life to hang out with a 16-year-old girl.
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Navigating the Quarterlife Crisis with Wisdom and Skill a self-memoir based on an idea that Jackson created to overcome the anxieties that gripped her mid-twenties.
These poems are rescued from being an overplayed quarterlife crisis by the poet's irresistible compulsion to find a path to engage life despite all the times she's been left floating.
"It's become the norm for recent grads to move back home," says Alexandra Robbins, author of "Conquering Your Quarterlife Crisis."
Two years before, she snagged a piece of the Zeitgeist as the wunderkind co-author of Quarterlife Crisis, which dealt with the "unique challenges" of affluent twenty-somethings as they move from college to the real world.