Lost Soul: Part 1 Kindle Edition

Content Warning: This book contains potentially triggering subject matter, including discussions of violence, drug and alcohol abuse, past trauma, flashbacks of child abuse (emotional, mental, and sexual), mental health and suicide and self harm.This is a true story. I was born into violence.Before I was old enough to understand the world, I was already fighting to survive it.Growing up on council estates between Watford and Bradford, My childhood was shaped by alcohol, brutality, and secrets that no child should ever carry. Behind closed doors lived a man who the world saw as charming─but at home he was something else entirely.A Monster.At just five years old, I learned a truth most people never have to face: sometimes the person who is supposed to protect you is the one you need protecting from.What followed was a life few would survive.Police raids.Psychiatric wards.Drug addiction.Violence on the streets.Voices in my head telling me to end it all.By the time I was 20 I had been sectioned multiple times, overdosed, slept homeless on park benches, and found myself hunted by drug dealers after spiralling into cocaine addiction.The system tried to medicate me.The streets tried to destroy me.My own mind tried to kill me.But somehow... I refused to break.Lost Soul is a brutally honest memoir about trauma, survival, addiction and the long fight to rebuild a life from nothing. It is the story of a boy who grew up in hell─and the man who fought his way out.This is not fiction.This is what survival really looks like. Read more