After I went on SSDI, I had a waiting period of a year before I got Medicare and the state of Indiana would not recognize my disorder as a disability, I did not get Medicaid. I got most of my psych health care and meds for cut rates or free.
After I got my Medicare, I had to go off of most of my meds. The newer ones with fewer side effects are all tier 4 or 5 drugs and I can not afford the copays. The older drugs, with lower copays, have so many negative side effects that I usually go off of them. This is not to mention the trouble of trying to get an appointment with a pdoc that both takes my Humana (Medicare) and is excepting new patients. In the middle of a bad cycle, I had to wait 3 months to get into a pdoc after I finally found one. All of the free or low income facilities turn you away if you have insurance, even though you can not get in anyplace else. In a lot of ways, I was better off with no insurance...