Half the people said that their lives had become better after a life crisis as a result of changes they made some said the benefits and downsides balanced each other out a smaller proportion said they never really recovered.

The concept of a midlife crisis is a well known one perpetuated by books and films. And recently the idea of a quarter-life crisis, between 20 and 30, has also gained a fair amount of media coverage. But there's a surprising lack of robust research on these events, and almost none on later life crisis.