The Room on the Right: A Memoir of Despair, Hope, and Reckoning in the Face of Abuse, Trauma, and PTSD

A physician's terrifying discovery: the perfect life he built was constructed atop decades of buried childhood trauma.

In 1999, Dr. Lawrence Mieczkowski, an Internal Medicine Specialist, husband, and father of two, was living a successful and stable life. Then Columbine happened. News footage of terrified students running from the school unlocked memories he had buried since early childhood-an alcoholic father, a distant mother, and a home shaped by fear and silence.

For the first time, he u...