Reading and mental health
As I have published here recently a few posts about the articles that I have red, today I want to tell you why is it good to read at all. Reading a book saved my day more than once, improving my mood in such an unexpected way that I was actually fairly surprised. That’s why when I saw the title of the new episode of Sting Abbey’s podcast, I found it pretty interesting and I decided to share the information I heard with you :) As the title itself points out in the podcast analyses the impact that reading has on people’s mental health and the ways in which one can boost the other. During the broadcast Abbey is interviewing three people who have suffered from mental illness o anxiety. He also speaks to Doctor Peter Sharma who is a consultant psychiatrist at Birmingham Mental Health Foundation and who supported the creation of Reading Well groups. Each person the presenter is talking to describe their own story and the impact that