That was an amazingly great article. I just added the book it's based on to my Amazon wishlist.
I found this comment interesting
> I've recently read a book on how American 'flavors' of mental illnesses are spreading through the world. Before the age of Hollywood and TV every region had its own 'symptom pool' to express depression and anxiety. In some countries men had 'koro', in other countries women experienced nervous leg paralysis. Nowadays depressed individuals all over the world suffer from the same set of symptoms that they have seen in American media: anorexia being the prime example.
Book: http://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Like-Us-Globalization-American/dp/141658708X