The World Health Organisation ranks mental health disorders as the number one source of disability, but millions of sufferers in the US say they are no longer getting routine healthcare.<br /><br />The number of psychiatric beds available in the country decreased from more than half a million in the 1950s to only 35,000 in 2012.<br /><br />The US has cut $4bn from its mental health budget since the Great Recession.<br /><br />Seriously ill patients must now turn to a network of community mental health centres for their medical, housing and other needs.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman reports from Richmond, Virginia.
