Bibliotherapy?!
Reading fiction has curative properties:
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/can-reading-make-you-happier
There was so much i loved about this article, it was hard to choose just one quote to entice you into reading it. I settled on this one:
Reading has been shown to put our brains into a pleasurable trance-like state, similar to meditation, and it brings the same health benefits of deep relaxation and inner calm. Regular readers sleep better, have lower stress levels, higher self-esteem, and lower rates of depression than non-readers. “Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines,” the author Jeanette Winterson has written. “What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.”
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/can-reading-make-you-happier
There was so much i loved about this article, it was hard to choose just one quote to entice you into reading it. I settled on this one:
Reading has been shown to put our brains into a pleasurable trance-like state, similar to meditation, and it brings the same health benefits of deep relaxation and inner calm. Regular readers sleep better, have lower stress levels, higher self-esteem, and lower rates of depression than non-readers. “Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines,” the author Jeanette Winterson has written. “What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.”