Yea, it is considered shameful to have to see a therapist or to be taking medication for any mental problems here. If people find out, they will look at you as if you're legitimately crazy and they will be saying things behind your back about how you're "not right" and weird. There's not much awareness about mental illnesses and most people see it as a weakness in character rather than an actual real illness/disorder.

When I was little I was hit with a thin bamboo stick (a switch) as punishment quite often and it was considered normal. Not only that, because I lived with my buddhist aunt and uncle when I was little, another punishment was to be made to kneel in front of the altar for an hour or more. In primary school, the teachers would punish mistakes by hitting on the palm of the hand with a long wooden ruler usually for failing a test, I don't know if they still do this now. This was all in the 90's. What's for sure is that I really hate how they can do this and yet they demand children to respect their elders simply because they are older and if you dare raise your voice you'd be punished even more. I don't feel much respect for the older generation and am very disgusted with their way of thinking and beliefs. I guess the actual hitting did not scar too badly because most of the children were treated the same way even though it's bad so it's not like one child is singled out as the bad one and is made to feel like they are treated far worse than other kids. What did the most damage to me was more the things my father said and how he always made me feel like I can't do anything and he even once said that I'm useless, it's a crippling mentality to ingrain in a child.