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Your job is probably triggering a fight/flight response constantly. https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/understanding-the-stress-response https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/understanding... Working with your hands and retreating to your shed allows you to sooth / calm rather than getting deeper into those stress hormones. For me, it also gives time for reflection. From the BBC: Men's Sheds: 'It's about so much more than making things' -> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-49615371 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-49615371 Have you read Daniel Pink's When? He talks about rhythms with most people being morning people - alert in the morning and ready for analytical work, entering a trough in the afternoon, then recovering in the evening. Are you mainly doing your shed work in the afternoon/evening, after work?