MehenaHackherz
Addicted City is my story-one born from chaos, carved by trauma, and complicated by addiction. I didn't grow up dreaming of writing a book. I grew up trying to survive. Long before I understood what trauma was, it had already started shaping every part of me.
I never knew my father. Violence, instability, and fear were constants in my early life, and that fear followed me like a shadow. As I got older, I turned to drugs-not because I wanted to die, but because I couldn't stand feeling alive. Addiction didn't just numb the pain; it became the pain, dragging me deeper into a version of myself I barely recognized. I tried so many times to claw my way out, only to fall back in. Still, somewhere in the wreckage of it all, I found something that looked a lot like resilience.
This book isn't just about addiction, or trauma, or pain-it's about what happens when you decide to fight your way through all of it. It's about the people who stood by me when I couldn't stand on my own. It's about betrayal, and heartbreak, and starting over more times than I can count. It's about the moments I wanted to give up-and the ones that kept me going.
Addicted City is my journey toward healing, toward reclaiming a sense of self, and toward believing-however slowly-that I deserve a life beyond survival. This is not a story tied up with a neat ending. This is real life. And I'm still living it.