Five years after assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna, Chris Brown recently admitted that he still goes to therapy sessions to seek help for domestic violence.

Sitting down with MTV's Sway on Sept. 11, the "Loyal" hitmaker candidly opened up about what he learned from his dark past.

"I think it's all about the choices you make," he said. "With me, I deal with a lot of anger issues from my past -- not knowing how to express myself verbally and at the same time not knowing how to cope with my emotions and deal with them and understand what they are."

Brown also claimed that his therapy sessions are actually helping him learn to better manage his anger.

"So I think help is great," he said. "I still talk to my therapist twice a week, and it helps me to, if I'm frustrated and I'm dealing with something, to vent and say what I'm going through, so I can hear from an actual clinical person, 'This is how you react,' or 'It's good to feel this way,' because feelings, emotions and energy are supposed to come and go."

"It's not supposed to stay there, you're not supposed to keep it inside because it'll bottle up and you'll become a monster," he said.

The R&B singer added that he is no better than Ray Rice, who recently knocked his wife Janay Palmer unconscious and dragged her out of an Atlantic City casino elevator. He then offered the former Baltimore Ravens running back some words of encouragement.

"To Ray, or anybody else," he said. "Because I'm not better than the next man -- I can just say I've been down that road. I deal with situations and I've made my mistakes too, but it's all about how you push forward and how you control yourself."

Chris Brown is set to release his highly anticipated sixth studio album "X" on Tuesday, Sept. 16.