How Depression was treated in olden days?

Scissoring- that is how the mental problems were used to be treated in olden days especially in Indian rural areas. Now of course, we have many approaches for treating mental problems. The stigma towards mental diseases is also disappearing fastly. They are now treated on par with most of common aiments.

When people found a person to be afflicted with nervous disorders, they used to refer to an expert. This expert used to be available for many villages in a region. And what about SCISSORING technique? Firstly, the patient's head is shaved cleanly.
The expert used make linear wounds or shallow cuts on the scalp of the patient with a pair of SCISSORS. The patient used to be caught by many people to make him not to run away out of pain and torture.. Afterwards, the cuts used to be applied Lime/Lemon juice.It was believed then that this treatment would cure the depression. There is no sufficient data available on such cases and success rates or adverse effects of this treatment.
Thank GOD! The advances in medical research brought about a variety of treatments into force for the benefit of humans at large giving respite from crude methods.