Possible Clues:

• Age-related loss of self-confidence
• Goddess, after film, cried uncontrollably - this is no juvenile trauma!
• I smiled if worried about discontentment in career: is – that it?
• Period of panic (when one may not exactly act one's age!)
• Period of panic experienced by persons of a certain age
• (Male?) menopause
• Panic often resulting (for men) in ill-advised lifestyle changes
• Fiftysomething's stress
• Loss of confidence later in career
• In which someone might lose self-confidence