He was persuaded to gather similar stories from friends, celebrities and strangers for a new book after his own "moment" proved to be the talking point of his 2005 memoirs, Symptoms of Withdrawal.
"Symptoms of Withdrawal: A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption" by Christopher Kennedy Lawford, has drawn interest because of its stories of addiction and its details on the Kennedy family.
In his 2015 memoir Pour Me: a Life, Gill described the alarming symptoms of his alcoholism: "Death signals from the blood in the bog, the pus in the sock, the tingling in the fingers".
Part memoir, part science, it deals with Couvade Syndrome, in which men experience symptoms of pregnancies.
DeCesare's new book, "Unsettled / Desasosiego: Children in a World of Gangs," part nonfiction history and part memoir, traces how she came to see gangs as both a symptom and a mechanism of emotional trauma.
Thatcher's daughter, Carol, revealed in her 2008 memoir A Swim-On Part in the Goldfish Bowl that her mother had been showing symptoms of progressive dementia since 2000.
A memoir within a memoir.
