Well ... I'm 57 BUT I got the quilting bug when I was in my 30's with a middle schooler at home and a fulltime job in a psychiatrist's office. Believe me ... this is way cheaper than $200-400 per hour for a Psychiatrist not to mention how expensive psychiatric drugs run. (Yes our machines may cost a lot but those are tools which is an entirely different category!)
One evening my quilt teacher looked around the room and said, "Should I be afraid? Everyone in this class is from USF's Psychiatry Center!" I even got one of the docs hooked!