I heard that there are no depression cases in Guangdong.

A friend from Guangdong said: When he was in school, there was a period of time when he didn't want to go to school and was in a very bad mood, feeling like he wanted to die.
His mother hired a local shamaness. The shamaness tied him to a chair, burned a talisman paper in front of him, and then turned the burned talisman into spiritual water.
She took out a whip from her bag, dipped it in the spiritual water, and then whipped him. It hurt so much that he grimaced and yelled loudly.
The shamaness told his mother, “Look, the child's soul has been possessed by an evil spirit—so fierce!”
After saying that, she whipped him again, causing him to scream even more. His mother nodded continuously beside him.
The more the shamaness whipped him, the more he yelled; the more he yelled, the more it hurt. He thought to himself: I can't keep yelling, or I'll get whipped even harder. So he clenched his teeth and stayed silent.
The shamaness then said to his mother, “See, this is still a stubborn evil spirit. I whipped him so hard, and he didn't even cry.”
His mother kept nodding: “Yes, yes, that's right.”
He was neither crying nor not crying; the sh