If you are poor and mentally ill in Fairfax County, VA, it can take you as long as six months to see a therapist. If you need a place in a group home, you could be waiting for years.

[Read](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/16/AR2006031602292.html?nav=rss_health) (Washington Post)

*If this is the situation in one of the [richest counties](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_income_counties_in_the_United_States “Wikipedia”) in the country, what’s it like in one the [poorer counties](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowest-income_counties_in_the_United_States “Wikipedia”)?*