Some books surprise you. They turn out to be something entirely different from what you expected. *Our House Is on Fire* by Greta Thunberg is one of them. I picked it up wanting to understand better a figure my granddaughter admired. What I found instead was a haunting portrait of Swedish society. "Amid all the rising curves of growth, vast numbers of people are doing worse and worse. Involuntary loneliness has become a chronic epidemic. Exhaustion and psychological distress are no longer a ticking time bomb. The bomb has already exploded." In Sweden, psychiatric disorders among teenagers aged ten to seventeen have surged more than 100 percent in a single decade. Diagnoses of ADHD and autism have more than doubled in just five years. "As long as the media and politicians seemed unconcerned," Greta's mother writes, "I assumed everything was under control. Then came Greta's crisis, followed by Beata's, and we found ourselves in a place we didn't even know existed."
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