Syag: Being an older single is a pain that continues everyday. Therapy can at most reduce but not eliminate such pain. The cure is marriage. A survivor, survived. He probably needs therapy but the hardest part is generally behind him. He can hope to look forward with the past being a bygone and the future one of potential bliss.
It is presumptuous to claim a survivor looking forward having already survived his ordeal has it worse than an older single who suffers every day.