Bibliotherapy: How reading books can promote mental health

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Bibliotherapy or book therapy comes from the word Bibliotherapy. It is a psychological treatment using books or various documents as a medium to help enhance the imagination and thinking of those who are mentally ill or have negative emotions, so that they can accept their problems or conditions better.

Reading is an activity that promotes both physical and mental health. These benefits of reading will stay with us forever. Promoting reading from a young age will have a positive effect in the future.

At present, there are many forms of book therapy, both in the form of prescribing a list of books to read and telling stories from books to people with mental illnesses by a book doctor or bibliotherapist to alleviate symptoms more sustainably and better than treatment with drugs alone.

As we age, our brains slow down, leading to forgetfulness, such as remembering people’s names, house numbers, and mobile phone numbers. Reading can help reduce the risk of memory loss.

In addition, people with depression often feel isolated and distant from others. However, reading books can help people with depression not feel isolated แทงบอล UFABET ราคาดีที่สุด ไม่มีขั้นต่ำ. For example, reading fiction books can help readers escape from the real world they have to face and live in the imaginary world of the book, so they do not feel alone.

And finally, most people nowadays are more addicted to communication devices and tablets. Which are part of what makes it harder to fall asleep. Because the light from these devices reduces the function of melatonin, a hormone in the brain that makes you sleepy. If you change to reading a book before going to bed, it will help you fall asleep more easily. Getting enough sleep will also affect your mental health and prevent you from getting irritated from not getting enough sleep.

Therefore, it can be that reading books is not only beneficial in providing knowledge. But also helps to heal the mind and relieve problems and negative emotions miraculously.