Does excerise actually make you feel better?

[Adûnâi]

because while I'm exercising I have nothing but more time to be inside my head and think of everything wrong in my life and in the world. Whenever I walk or run, all I do is ruminate without distraction about everything that sucks so hard.

It's physical pain that becomes mental pain because my mind is left without distractions too long, leaving it open to becoming depressed and sewer slidal extremely easily~ plus, it's hard to feel nice-looking after because you're all sweaty~ >_<

Can't you be listening to a podcast or music when exercising? To clarify... my experience with exercising started (and ended? xd) this year (2025), I destroyed two stepping machines in Feb-March, then my mom brought me a bike machine, and I tried to do it for a bit in July and/or early August. It was pretty boring and pointless. I did start taking my phone in the end, but stopped before investigating if it would help.

No, I didn't feel better at all doing it. What the normies might be referring to is working on your goal - which does indeed feel like achieving something. But exercise is not exactly an achievement, it's just a meaningless number, and in the best case the bodily results only become apparent after months.

Meanwhile, yesterday I spent 3 hours sweeping the floor, and the results are unmistakably clear immediately.