Physique problems.

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Its not that I'm depressed or moaning about it; just uncomfortable and feeling odd, that's all. I have a very strange body. I weigh about 220 lbs., the last time I checked. My belly button is a shallow cavern, always filled with lint. My stomach is an amorphous Flubber spawn that jets slightly beyond my penis, but I can still see Private Johnson on duty down there. I have man-breasts. My head is the size of a small football, and I think I have another chin developing as I am writing this. I am 5'7, and extremely hirsute. I bet that if I lost a bit of weight, let the hair grow and shrunk a few inches, I'll be perfect for the part of Wolverine.

I don't know. Something about looking at myself in the mirror gives me an Uncanny Valley effect. Again, I'm not disgusted with my appearance, just... uncomfortable with my body. I could exercise, but it causes me EXTREME AGONY. I'm frequently out of breath, and sometimes I have chest pains. I can hardly run. I feel like I could have a heart attack just by exerting myself a bit. Just... yeesh.

Well, how about going on a diet of some sort? I was chubby as a child and then when I was, in fact, just about your age when I decided to change some of my eating habits (which I think were forced on me by my controlling mom) for whatever reason I cannot tell. Couldn't move much, shortage of breath and all b/c of lung problems, but cutting down on food in general and making wiser choices proved to be a very enlightening experience. Just to say that a different diet can bring winds of positive change in ways you might not even expect

The majority of people have issues with their body.
You are not alone. I have a bit of a stomach myself. It would be worse without exercise.

I would suggest exercise. I walk up to six miles a day and that is the only thing that keeps me fit.
A diet may do good but they are miserable. You start out small at first and then work up to working harder.
That is a good way to fight stress and weight gain.

3 times in my life i've gone from fat to fit. doing it each time was a mother and a half, that when i was young took me roughly 2 months [then each decade later took another 2 months added each time] before i even stopped feeling like death at the end of each workout. it is equal parts diet and exercise- cutting out anything white from the diet [IOW refined flours/sugars/starches, eating more lean protein and low-glycemic-index carbs] and doing a combo of anaerobic and aerobic exercise for at least an hour each day, without fail. i went from not even being able to do one [correct] pushup, up to 50. but it took 6 months for me to get to that point, at my most recent fat-to-fit conversion a few years back. back when i was in my early 20s in army basic training they made me do the conversion in less than 2 months. but i'm not young anymore and the older one gets the harder it gets, which is incentive for me to not slack off this time, to keep it up as long as i can, until extreme aging stops me. so i know what it feels like to be totally out of shape, and how hard and steep a slog it is to get up from that rock-bottom state. but it can be done, you just have to want it more than anything else at this point, just like those folk on "the biggest loser" and such. you are young and still can do it without too much drama, my old-fart advice would be to change course before it's too late and some major health problem [like a stroke or heart attack] interrupts your progress. it doesn't have to be like on the biggest loser, you can start out slowly, by just adding a 10-minute walk each day, then add another 10 minutes each additional week until you can do an hour, then add hills and speed to your routine. it can be done. but to keep the weight off, muscle-building is just as important as building up your aerobic capacity- you don't have to pay $$$$ for a fancy-schmancy gym membership, your body and room boundaries are all you need, and maybe a sturdy doorframe and one of those chin-up adaptors you can get at wallyworld for $18. pushups, crunches, chin-ups and their variants will build calorie-burning muscle, and you will use that new muscle to burn those calories with up to an hour of daily fast-walking or biking up and down hills, when you work up to it. slow and steady finishes the race. you can do it!

That's difficult but I feel that way about my body sometimes, I always think that it isn't good enough which leads me to working out harder in the gym even though I'm in good physical shape, I think it's a good sign that you aren't content, it is a sign that you want to strive to achieve a better body. You know that you want to change your body and the only way to do that is through rigorous exercise and weightlifting.

It is true that many people who are good at something are usually self critical or never content and that can apply to artists, writers, musicians, actors, I don't think it is any different when it comes to working out.