Harry Potter: A Cure for Depression?
July 10, 2007 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Here’s a new one for you: Reading the books of the Harry Potter series could help minor/low-grade depression.
I can’t take credit for that idea (and at present don’t know if I’d want to) – it’s from a 2003 article, Mental Health Benefits of Harry Potter, written by Jeff Stoyanoff and featured at MuggleNet.
(For those of you who aren’t die hard Harry Potter fans such as myself, MuggleNet is one of the most popular HP-related websites out there.)
The article isn’t poorly written, but it merely skims the topic the title leads us to believe will be discussed.
Given tonight’s debut of the …read more




