Hi, I live in North Hertfordshire in the UK. We have free psychiatry appointments to diagnose mental illness. With this comes a whole care team including a care coordinator to organise mental health appointments, a Therapist to provide CBT or alternative counselling, a social worker who you can call every week day, social worker visits about once a week, family therapy to help them understand you, free prescriptions to those on a low income or just seven pounds per medicine, free blood tests on the nhs state health care system. Plus free hospitalization and treatment. Then, there is Mind, the mental health charity providing a free mental health chat line which actually the nhs also provides out of hours and Mind also provide low cost counselling which is very effective. Then to help the poor the state provide social housing, free bills, food money and the list goes on. What do you have where you live?
wow that is great… 
i get;
disability allowance
a free shrink
free therapist
discounts on medication…( i am not on meds, so don’t use it )
free car rego
free carer assist team
discounts for utilitys and transport.
discounts on accommodation ( for szs and carers)
i am in australia
take care 
I line the Midwest region of the United States. To my knowledge, there is very little pro-active help for people with mental illness. You have to be able to track down your own psychiatrist, and afford it. If you can’t, then you have to wait until you get bad enough to be in the hospital, and then hope that someone in your life takes you. There are multiple hospitals in the area where I live (across a large area) and only one of them has any type of service for people with mental illness. They have some psychiatric nurses who can try to help you figure out what sort of assistance you might be able to get, but you’re still going to need to be in a good enough state to keep appointments, do paperwork, and also have your own transportation.
I had a bad episode that resulted in me being homeless for a little while, this was in California however, in the cluster of cities north of LA. I encountered a lot of homeless people who had severe mental illness. There were no efforts or programs to help them. At most, they might be arrested and spend a night in jail, or if they were lucky, get one night in the hospital (better than being on the streets), but they would be put right back out on the streets with nobody to help them manage medication or anything like that.
There was one woman who may have had drug-related psychosis + mental illness, hard to say, but she was always in extreme distress experiencing bugs crawling out of her skin. I convinced her I was a doctor and that I had medicine to kill the bugs, all I had was an Aspirin but it worked a little bit as a distraction to help her calm a little for a little while. But the best we could do is one of us with a cell phone would call 911 and try to come up with a story that could get her in the hospital for a night, they were not even interested if she just had psychosis alone.
sorry you don’t get much help
i am very fortunate with the assistance i get 
take care
I’m in California and have same as @Turnip. I am not in therapy currently and am desperate to find a new therapist after moving to a more remote area. I have insurance but they don’t want to help. There are very limited resources and services and any of them have to be searched out on your own… It’s a dangerous system.
Everything is free as long as it is related to your illness. They even pay for train tickets and transportation, if the hospital is in another city.
So sad… hope things improve for the future. It must be so scary…
There is a place in suburban denver where I live called Jefferson center for mental health. They have psychiatrists and therapists. They have tons of groups. They help people find housing apply for benifits. They run a clubhouse called summit center. That gives you something to do. I have medicaid and am on ssi.
Colorado expanded medicaid that helped them a lot. I hope the democrats retain control of the white house so medicaid continues. They have always been for universal healthcare unfortunately this was the best deal they could get.