Finding focus through lifting

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when i

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lift weights i don't hear things i don't

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see things i know it sounds weird but

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i'm so focused on lifting

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that everything else kind of blanks out

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when i was super depressed weightlifting

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was a reason

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to do something i do think it helped me

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manage those mood swings

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you know being bipolar is something that

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i'm proud to say like i'm okay with it

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and i would like to erase a stigma on

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all mental disorders

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[Music]

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growing up sports were always pretty

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important to my family

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and i spent 11 years doing gymnastics

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when i was 15 years old i decided to end

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my career in gymnastics

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and i found crossfit just to stay in

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shape through crossfit

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my current coach recruited me to get

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into

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weightlifting competitively and i

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decided to