Decades of Word Documents *******ed and cannot be restored

After literally decades of writing stuff and saving my docs, I cannot open a single one. I've been collating documents for decades, literally, my life's work - and now I can;t open a single document because all of them are *******ed? Like What in the actual f*ck is happening? How can this happen? I am absolutely crushed and your products are USELESS TO ME NOW! **** you guys