Midlife Crisis - what exactly is it? I had never thought about it more before, other than what I had seen and heard in movies (not sure if its sad or not (haha :)), that it had been my only introduction to midlife crisis before or not ), before I started to actually go through it myself... What is the root or midlife crisis? Why is it called crisis instead of just transformation? What can we do to help ourselves during Midlife Crisis time?!