I can read for enjoyment again...

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So since an incident back in highschool that caused me some trauma I have had a very, very difficult time being able to sit down and read a book. I've been able to here and there but not like I used to for the longest time. But now it seems that its starting to come back to me perhaps this means I can finally read the Game of Thrones books.

Sweet. I've had my issues with reading too, but it has nothing to do with trauma and everything to do with concentration issues and an undiagnosed reading/learning disorder that I suspect is dyslexia. Sentences appear almost like gibberish and I basically have to read each one five times for it to sink in. Just getting through a single chapter of a novel can be a huge chore for me, taking hours. That's why I watch movies and TV shows more than I read books; a movie I can get through in a few hours, whereas a book can take months or even years.

i never was interested in fiction, and long winded non fiction, i only sped read.
i know what i want to know because i sped read it, but i do not have any interest in what i am not curious about.
i know nothing about which i am not interested, and i guess that is a problem in this day and age.
i have no imagination beyond a small perimeter

Cool. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't read, as this is my main source of entertainment. Happy for you.

A year or so ago I knuckled down on me for studying too slow and just about only read nonfiction. In terms of raw knowledge it worked, but I figured out more food for thought was necessary for me to get anything else done. I think good fiction can inform us a on lot more than just wrapping up some cliffhangers.

It used to be mine as well, but I switched over to internet activities and watching movies and listening to tons of music...I doubt it will become my main source of entertainment again but I am glad I can actually sit down and concentrate on a book when I want now.

But yeah sometimes I like to read disturbing/scary kinds of stories late at night....because it makes them more intense, than if you read them during the day. And I am the type that is usually quite disappointed and unimpressed with the vast majority of horror movies...The Twighlight Zone is more disturbing than half of those.

That's great: that you can focus on reading again. And its great that you seem to be recovering from that trauma.