As a guy, who do you actually talk to when you're going through it emotionally? Not a crisis, just life stuff. Dating, loneliness, feeling stuck. Like sometimes I feel so bad and need to talk to someone otherwise I sit in a pit, but obviously theres no one to talk to so i just have to reconcile these feelings alone? Is really normal?
I have friends and family but I can't bring myself to open up to them, not in the way i want because i know from experience that opening up to anyone already close to me will only hurt my relationship with them in some way. Feels like too much, way too much.
Is therapy the only real answer? Has anyone actually found it helpful? Just looking for real responses from people who've been there because I cant keep feeling like this and do nothing about it but even finding a therapist seems like such an ordeal, having to find one that seems good, waiting weeks for an appointment just to decide it wasn't a good fit. Is this just how it has to be as a man?