Exercise raises my stress level. (One time, exactly one, in my entire life, I felt sort of high after getting some exercise. I thought it was cool and tried to reproduce it and couldn’t.) Even if I’m just walking, gently enough that my lungs don’t care, it makes my feet hurt and the rest of me too hot until all I want to do is fling myself into a frigid shower and collapse until I’m cold enough to believe that it’s safe to leave the water. (I routinely arrange to be too cold, because definitely being too cold is safer and more comfortable than maybe being too hot.)
I’m not under stress most of the time.
Exercise raises my stress level. (One time, exactly one, in my entire life, I felt sort of high after getting some exercise. I thought it was cool and tried to reproduce it and couldn’t.) Even if I’m just walking, gently enough that my lungs don’t care, it makes my feet hurt and the rest of me too hot until all I want to do is fling myself into a frigid shower and collapse until I’m cold enough to believe that it’s safe to leave the water. (I routinely arrange to be too cold, because definitely being too cold is safer and more comfortable than maybe being too hot.)