Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting candid about how his self-esteem has taken a toll as he gets older.
During an interview on “The Howard Stern Show” Wednesday, the former bodybuilder opened up about how he has struggled to come to terms with his changing body after being in such great shape in his youth.
“I kind of smile because every day I do look in a mirror and I say, ‘Yep, you suck,’” the seven-time Mr. Olympia winner told host Howard Stern.
“I look at this body … look at those pectoral muscles that used to be firm and perky and really powerful with a striation in there. Now they’re just hanging there. I mean, what the hell is going on here?”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 76, said he looks at himself every morning in the mirror and says, “‘Yep, you suck.’” Getty Images for SiriusXM
While Schwarzenegger, 76, knows most people deal with the same existential crisis, he argued that they don’t know what it’s like to go from “Superman” to an average man.
“It’s one thing to see yourself get older and more and more out of shape but most of the people have never been in shape. So what does it mean getting out of shape?” he said.
“When you’ve been hailed for years as this supreme body, and you have the definition and you see the veins coming down your abs, and you see veins on top of your chest and then … you roll the clock 50 years and you’re standing there and you don’t see that anymore,” Schwarzenegger continued.
Schwarzenegger won the Mr. Olympia competition seven times in his prime. Getty Images
Although the “Terminator” actor admitted that he looks better than the “majority” of people his age, he still isn’t satisfied.
“I never, ever thought about that when I was 30 years old or 40 years old that this [was] going to happen,” he added. “It just sucks.”
Schwarzenegger says everything changed for him after he had open heart surgery at 50, leaving him feeling like “damaged goods” for the first time.
The 55-year-old ACP was depressed as his wife passed away three days ago. The cop ended his life at his home located in Delhi’s Jungpura area.
Delhi ACP shot himself using his private revolver at his residence.
An Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) allegedly shot himself dead at his residence in New Delhi days after his wife’s death, police said on Wednesday. The 55-year-old Delhi ACP, identified as Anil Sisodia, shot himself using his personal revolver.
Anil Kumar Sisodiya was posted as ACP headquarters in southwest district.
According to the preliminary investigation by Delhi Police, the cop was depressed as his wife passed away three days ago. Anil Sisodia ended his life at his home located in Delhi’s Jungpura area.
“A 55-year-old ACP of Delhi Police, identified as Anil Sisodia, allegedly died by suicide by shooting himself at his residence in Jangpura. His wife passed away three days back,” Delhi Police said.
At a meeting where a draft policy was discussed, the chief minister said the life of the young generation is limited to mobile phones, which has led them towards drug abuse, according to a statement issued here.
Sukhvinder Singh
The Himachal Pradesh government will formulate a drug de-addiction and rehabilitation policy for the youth addicted to drugs, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has said.
At a meeting where a draft policy was discussed, the chief minister said the life of the young generation is limited to mobile phones, which has led them towards drug abuse, according to a statement issued here.
He said the state government is taking strict action to prevent the youth from falling prey to drug abuse and a state-of-the-art drug de-addiction-cum-rehabilitation centre will be established in the state with the support of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) to achieve this goal. Source: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/politics/himachal-govt-to-prepare-drug-de-addiction-rehabilitation-policy-cm-sukhvinder-singh-10583121.html
Jeremy Hammer was at a crowded college party in Virginia last month when he heard a loud bang. There were gasps, followed by a scream. Then everyone began rushing toward the exits.
Hammer remembers feeling terrified. “It was one of those moments where you’re like, ‘Oh my God, it’s my turn.’” It took a minute to grasp that the noise was not a gunshot, but a burst balloon.
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Jen Panos is a mother of three in California. She finds herself noting what her kids are wearing to school. If there is a shooting, she thinks, she needs to be able to identify their bodies. “I walk myself through it: What am I going to do if this comes for us?” she said.
Kat Vargas and her husband, a firefighter, live in Texas. They too have a plan for what to do in the event of a shooting: Vargas would cover their youngest, while her husband would shield their middle son. Their eldest, who is 9, might have to run.
Last weekend, Vargas’s husband was one of the first responders to the attack on a mall in Allen, Tex., that killed eight people. Vargas can’t talk about the shooting without crying, but she is not surprised. “It’s surreal, not shocking,” she said.
Hypervigilance. Numbness. Anxiety. Exhaustion. As the country confronts a fresh string of mass killings — in a mall, in a home, at a bank, a birthday party, a school — the unrelenting violence is exacting a psychological toll.
Experts say that even people far away from the scene of such events can experience increased stress and anxiety. At the same time, the frequency of mass killings means that in some cases, they are losing their capacity to stun and horrify.
This year alone, the country has witnessed 22 mass killings by gunfire, according to a database maintained by the Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University that includes incidents where four or more people were killed, not including the shooter. That represents a marked increase from 2022: At this time last year, there had been eight such events.
While mass killings draw the media spotlight, they are a small fraction of the country’s gun deaths, which include tens of thousands of homicides and suicides each year. Researchers at Boston University concluded that over the course of an American’s lifetime, the likelihood of knowing someone killed or injured by gunfire is nearly 100 percent.
The burden comes atop an already acute sense of emotional exhaustion after a years-long period marked by a deadly pandemic, climate-related disasters and a belated racial reckoning, said Roxane Cohen Silver, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Irvine who studies trauma.
“There’s a broader context here of many years of stress and anxiety and uncontrollable events that have felt really almost too much to bear,” she said.
Silver’s research has shown how media exposure can transmit the psychological impact of traumatic events well beyond their immediate area. One study found that after the 2013 Boston marathon bombing, people who immersed themselves in media coverage of the attack experienced more acute stress than people in Boston.
“When you’re at an event, there is a beginning, middle and end,” Silver said. But when you’re absorbed in the coverage, “you’re seeing a loop over and over again of the tragedy.”
Meghan Alessi, a project manager in Louisville, knows how that feels. When she was 20, she was at a premiere of the movie “The Dark Knight Rises” the same day a shooter opened fire during a showing of the film in Aurora, Colo., killing 12. She became fixated on the coverage, grieving over the victims, learning about their families and trying to find ways to protect herself in the future.
In more recent years, however, she has found herself tuning out the coverage of shootings. It’s a form of self-preservation, she said. The prevalence of such incidents “just leads you to become numb to it,” said Alessi, 30. “It’s such a normal thing at this point that everyone moves on, whether you’re ready to or not.”
