The Inherent Dangers of Memoir Writing
July 6, 2011 § 5 Comments
Some people have had changes in behavior, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, suicidal thoughts or actions while using MEMOIR to help them examine their lives. Some people had these symptoms when they began writing MEMOIR, and others developed them after several weeks of free-writing and active verb replacement. If you, your family, or workshop leader notice agitation, hostility, depression, or changes in behavior, thinking, or mood that are not typical for you, or you develop suicidal thoughts or actions, anxiety, panic, aggression, genital warts, or genre confusion, or if you begin to obsess day and night over the best ways to gain the attention of a well-placed literary agent, stop writing MEMOIR and call your doctor right away or go here to keep reading
The Brevity Blog 
so funny
You forgot about the bouts of free-floating guilt that follow the anxiety attacks over whether or not you misremembered certain key facts, like if your best friend’s windbreaker was blue with red stripes down the sleeve or red with blue stripes down the sleeve. God forbid the perjury of the memoirist.
i just imagined a scene of an elderly couple walking on the beach, or playing toss with a brown lab, or planting a garden, or playing with grandchildren.
I feel better all ready! Thank you, Dinty, for this dose of High Larity.
Symptoms? I thought all that was NORMAL. Jeez. Thanks, Dinty.