Mental Health Care: HARD even with good insurance and great personal support.

RantWoman notes this item about mental health care in another state. It's pretty daunting even for a native English speaker with good insurance and excellent support.
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/04/05/mental-health-new-hampshire

RantWoman has anecdotal and observational information to the effect that realities in WA are just as hair-raising. RantWoman has further information that needing interpretation or having other language access barriers makes the challenge of living with mental illness even more daunting.



Once upon a time, long ago, RantWoman also worked as a bean counter in an organization where the norm was--and RantWoman thinks still is--to expect primary care doctors to manage most mental illness in primary care with medication. Enough said for now!