Midlife as suffering the crisis is a universal experience. they found the general design of emotional life is shaped like the letter U. Levels of happiness are highest when people are young and when they are old. In the middle However, most people’s happiness and life satisfaction levels drop. Professor Oswald say some people suffer from midlife depression more than others, and it happens to men and women, to single and married people, to rich and those without children. Last December, government researchers reported a big increase in suicides among middle aged people in the United states. They looked at injury-related death rates by age group from 1999 to 2004. They found that suicide increased almost twenty percent among people ages 45-54. Over all suicides in the United States increased four percent from 1999 to 2004. That year 32400 people took own lives.