I'm 75 and it didn't work for me. Over 50 years of trying, on and off.

I thought it did, or was going to, for a long time. Eventually the doubts I read on this forum resulted in me experiencing more fully my own doubts, which I believe I wasn't able to experience or consider as valid because of issues I went into therapy with.

The last therapist, a specialist in trauma and dissociation, diagnosed me with what I believe was a useful diagnosis, in terms of understanding my difficulties. But her "therapy" did NOT help much, although I kept feeling like it would eventually if I was honest with her about my feelings. After 6 years she terminated me saying that she didn't "have the emotional resources" to continue. That triggered, or retraumatized, the original trauma that I had/could never experience. It was quite awful for a number of months and even years. But eventually I have gotten over it somewhat, with the support of this forum, and some others, and with a real-life support group I had lucked into a year before the therapist terminated me. Also my years of research help my intellect provide some support and understanding for my emotional life, for which the term "dissociation" or "fragmentation" was probably accurate. Nevertheless, how do you move on from that?

"Never again!" is my philosophy, too, although I have tried a couple (keep my cards very close to the vest). I did have some luck with a therapist whom I asked just to tell me how I come across to her, so that I could try to regain, or gain, some confidence that I could get along with other people.

I now live in a supportive (senior) community and that helps a lot, too.