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Middle Age: A Low Point for Most People around the globe hit the height of their misery and depression in middle 1 , a new international study suggests. The finding by British and American researchers was based on an analysis of well-being among approximately 2 million people in 80 nations. With few exceptions, the observation appears to apply across the board, regardless 3 gender , culture, geography, wealth, job history, education, and marriage or parental status. The scientific fact seems to be that happiness and positive mental health follow a giant 4 through life, said study author Andrew J. Oswald, a professor of economics at Warwick University in Warwickshire, England. For the average person, its high when youre 20, and then it slowly 5 and bottoms out in your 40s. But the good news is that your 6 health picks up again, and eventually gets back to the high levels of your youth.www.ExamW.CoM The finding was 7 on the pooling of several different sources of happiness data, including: two multi-decade happiness/satisfaction surveys , involving about 500,000 American and Western European men and women; four rounds of the 80-nation World Values Survey 8 between 1981 and 2004 in North America, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Central and South America; and a 2004-2007 survey 9 nearly 1 million Britons. | 
