Nerd Alert: Reading is Good For Your Health Response

Nerd Alert: Reading is Good For Your Health by Jen Christensen is about the impact of reading on people's psychological health. Books, both fiction and nonfiction can help people work through rough patches and sort out their emotions. It has also been said by professionals that reading fictional books can better peoples' social interactions and emotional intelligence. By reading fictional stories, readers associate things that are happening in the story with real life and therefore are thinking more deeply about others and learning to empathize. If people apply what they learn about social interactions and compassion in books, they can improve their interactions with others and become better, more aware people.

Reading, though it may sound cliché, helps me with almost every problem that I come across. Whether the help comes in forms of realizing that people have much bigger problems than my own, or escaping the stress of the moment, I almost always find solace in my favorite books. In the past few years when I've found myself let down by people around me, I tend to lose myself with the characters who I know won't leave me disappointed. My family jokes about my collection of books and how I keep them in pristine condition, but they are of utmost importance to me. When I'm down or stressed about school the first thing I almost always go to is one of my three favorite series. I can pick up a book that I love, or a new favorite and find myself lost for hours in the book's reality instead of my own.