I get too emotionally attached to books and their characters.
I always find myself thinking 'I want friends like these' or 'I wish I could meet this person' or better yet, I wish this was my life.
I find it so hard to put down a good book because I become so immersed in this fictional world that I don't want to go back to my ordinary, boring little life.
So I escape it... for a little while.
And it works. When I read, I don't feel like a shell.
I don't feel empty.
I don't feel the loneliness as much, either.
That's why I switch from fictional books to motivational and learning books. Haha.
So the mind won't think so much.