{"id":4808,"date":"2012-07-19T03:39:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T03:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inveske.co.uk\/the-4th-of-july-independence-day\/"},"modified":"2012-07-19T03:39:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T03:39:23","slug":"the-4th-of-july-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariliacoutinho.com\/pt-br\/the-4th-of-july-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The 4th of July \u2013 Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the kick-off of something I\u2019ve been postponing, at least in English. Last year, I broke a five and thirty year silence and revealed to the country the chief reason my ties to powerlifting are so strong. I owe it my life. On the 4th<\/sup> of July of 2005 I survived a suicide attempt \u2013 a serious and miraculously prevented one. As early as 1981 I was diagnosed as a serious case of bipolar disorder. I have also been diagnosed with epilepsy and post traumatic stress disorder, resulting from multiple sex abuse and rape episodes. For decades, I was heavily medicated with psychotropic drugs until I decided there was no dignity in this type of life. I dropped the meds and started strength training. For the first time since my athletic adolescence (I was a fencer), I improved. But eventually my training degenerated and the disease came back with a vengeance. In 2005, on the 4th<\/sup> of July, I had to face it again. I slashed my throat, the jugular was partly cut and so were some facial nerves. I have little sensibility on the left side of my face. I lost about 1 litre of blood. This happened on a dirt road near a beach, someone was passing by and took me to a small clinic in 5 minutes, where they stitched me as best as they could.<\/p>\n

In 2006 I discovered powerlifting. Since then, I have been leading a life that can quite safely be called a good life. No, there is no cure. No, I am not symptom-free. But the danger has been dramatically controlled, with no seriously self harming behavior. A few years ago, Gabe Sorensen wrote, in his Power Unlimited script, that you take from powerlifting what you put into it. I have put my life in this sport and it gave me back one I didn\u2019t have anymore.<\/p>\n

The doctors predicted I wouldn\u2019t live for more than a couple of months after the 2005 attempt. They gave me a 5 year deadline, though. On the 4th<\/sup> of July of 2012, surviving two years of my predicted death, I have traveled to Colombia to lift and win the WPC South American Championship.<\/p>\n

I decided to share this because it is time to do it. I have done this at the magazine bellow, in Brazil, last year, because my family and friends asked me to do it (for years, actually). I think I managed to help many mental and neurological disorder patients. I have also managed to raise angry reactions from the psychiatric mainstream establishment. I don\u2019t give a damn.<\/p>\n

I am alive. And I am lifting.<\/p>\n

Ela tem a for\u00e7a <\/a>(She\u2019s got the Strength)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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