Hey guys, I have a question.
So context. For the past 2 days, I've been having angry outburst and I have a sense that it's from some sort of resentment from having about dating and my role as a man within it, and it got to the point where I ended up hitting my steering wheel and broke my charger. This happened before work but I decided to go home early as I wasn't in the right mental state.
I have a therapist that I talk to about social skills development (due to past social awkwardness) but I felt more safe opening up about social skills, relationship development skills as it wasn't very specific to men's issues and I basically framed it as a skill development journey. But I feel like the current thing I'm frustrated about is a men's issue thing (more specifically my frustration with dating as a man and things I find irksome from women) and I'm having a very hard time opening up to him about it.
I found his profile and it states one of the things he does help with is men's issues, but I'm not sure to what extent it means. I'm afraid that opening up about this would get me replies in the frame of "toxic masculinity" or "me viewing women as sex objects" or "losing the male privilege of being the dominant one". There was a post in this forum about therapy and psychology being discussed from a feminist lense and a lack of male focus on it.
So I'm wondering if my therapist who listed "mens issues" in his profile would only see it from a feminist biased lense or outside of that and I have no way of knowing this, so it doesn't make it easy fo me to open up about my problems without facing those repercussions.
But i wanna get this resolved as if I don't, it'll only get worse and I might lash out in my work environment (which is an auto factory warehouse.).
But let's say I managed to open up about this and my therapist does happen to go into that "feminist-biased" trajectory. What's my response there, and what should I look for in a therapist when it comes to dealing with male-centric issues?
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