Hey, it's Kristen Carney, your second favorite sad person, because you should be your first

favorite sad person.

Welcome to another episode of the Mentally Chill podcast.

So a friend of mine text me this morning with an article about Arnold Schwarzenegger pumping someone up on Reddit to get

out of their depression and into the gym. So I'm going to redo the little exchange between Ali,

the Reddit user, and the Terminator, also known as now the Depression Terminator. So she wrote, i know this is pandering but i've been depressed

for months and haven't hit the gym during that time mr schwarzenegger can you please tell me to get off

my lazy ass and hit the gym i swear to everything that i hold dear i will snap out of it and go

alley sounds like me she's calling herself lazy. You're not lazy.

You're depressed. But anyway, Schwarzenegger responds, and I'm going to read that to you, obviously

it would be so much better if it was read in his amazing accent. It's not going to be. I'm not

going to embarrass myself and even try. So I'll just read you what he wrote. He said, I'm not going to be that hard on you. Please don't be that hard on yourself. We all go through challenges. We all go through failure,

except me, of course. He didn't say that, but I put that in there for him.

Sometimes life is a workout, but the key thing is you get up. Just move a little.

Roll out of bed and do some push-ups or go for a walk. Just do something. One step at a time.

I hope you feel better and get back to the gym. But don't beat yourself up because that's just

useless talk. It doesn't get you closer to the gym. And don't be afraid to ask for help.

So that was lovely what he said. But my favorite part is the last line when he said, good luck. I love that. That's so

funny to me. It's like saying, I mean, maybe this isn't the best analogy, but it's like,

you know, saying to a cancer patient. So you're going to treatment today? Well, good luck with that.

I hope you survive. And you get rid of that nasty lump pretty quick. So yeah, good luck.

But it was really cool of Arnold. I call him Arnold because we're on a first name basis.

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