Lightroom has lost my photos and fouled up Bridge. Help!!

(1) Today when I started up Lightroom I went to Library and discovered that none of my folders are listed. So I went under 'Import', and they are all there, but all of the folders are empty. I have not moved any folders, photos in over a year. How do I get my folders back?
(2) Lightroom has fouled up Bridge. Now when I use Bridge, all of the photos are missing from their folders, and what I see is a Lightoom Icon for an .lrcat file. If I double click on that, the photos open and are displayed, but in LIGHTROOM! 
So it's a double whammy. I can't use Bridge anymore to open my photos in Photoshop, and I can't use Lightroom anymore because it can't find any of my photos, but I can use Bridge to open Lightroom and display my files. What is going on?

I think you gave me the clue ssprengel. Most of the files dated 2014 were giving me the problem. A few were not. All of the folders with other names were fine. When I tried to open one of the .lrcat files by double clicking on it, the file was huge, and no thumbnails were showing until I clicked on All Photos and they appeared, a huge jumble, some from over a year ago. Each one seems to be a new catalog. So I checked my settings, and Lightroom WAS NOT set to open the previous catalog. I don't know how that setting got changed. Anyway, all seems normal now, and in Bridge too. Just to be on the safe side, I moved all of those problematic 2014 files to another hard disk just in case.
So, all seems good now. Even though I've been using Lightroom for years now, I figure I had better go back and check out those videos that others recommended. That was good advice too, so thank you to all.

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