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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rebecca Whittaker

The unhappiest age might surprise you - and it’s not midlife

For decades, people have hit an "unhappiness hump” during midlife between the more content periods of old age and youth - but perhaps no longer.

A survey of more than ten million Americans and 40,000 British households has revealed the widely documented rise in worry, stress, and depression with age - that peaks in midlife and then declines - may have disappeared.

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