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I assume they're talking about the doomscrolling / social media / letting the world dictate your emotions kind of stress.

No, I am talking about the high-stress job and abusive partner kind of stress.

Got you. I thought medieval work life would be comparable to our modern lives so I've been looking in other corners.

Perhaps true but medieval life expectancy was not particularly great.

I think it was pretty decent once you made it past childhood. I want to say it was around the mid 60s

Life expectancy in medieval Engalnd was early 30s in the cities (accounting for infant mortality).

Once a person hit adulthood it was low 50s and if memory serves early 60s if you were wealthy.