[jrflowers]

> I don’t think there’s a metaphorical “cow” that could have helped me.

The medication is the cow for you. In this story your support system figured out what would work best for you, which was medication, and facilitated that.

It’s a story about a doctor that serves patients in rural Cambodia. Help from the local community would look different in Borey Peng Huoth, for example.

[parineum]

I think that's a huge stretch.

"Your community" isn't your doctor. This annecdote, to me, is cleariy an attempt to blame modernity for depression.

[jrflowers]

The story in the article that is being discussed here does not say that the doctor was explicitly not a member of the community that he served. You would have to just sort of make that part up and then come up with an explanation for how the doctor even knows that story if he wasn’t part of that community.

The doctor in the story exists in pretty recent history, which you would call modernity. If for some reason you’re using “modernity” as a way to say “systemic alienation of the individual” rather than “modernity” meaning “happening in the modern world” then yes, by your definition of that word, it is indeed a story about “modernity” being to blame for poor treatment for depression.