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How is mental illness treated in the third world?

Now when I say treated, I mean just that--treated. How is it taken care of? If we're to assume less resources are available to societies not of the developed world, how do they go about treating things like autism? Do these people just "cope," for lack of a better term? I started thinking about this the other day because I wondered if a hoarder can only exist when there's an abundance of goods. Then I wondered if hoarding is just a symptom and would display differently in a culture that doesn't have an emphasis on collecting stuff. Hopefully I didn't ramble too much.
gpt
Mental illness is treated much more at the family and community level than at the institutional level.  In Europe and the US, families are quick to hospitalize, institutionalize, and provide drug-based treatments to the mentally ill.  In Africa, India, and other rural regions with large populations the responsibility for care of the mentally ill lies with the family, or potentially the larger town or village that person lives in.  Violent or really bad cases are referred to hospitals, where they get care (which might be drugs, confinement, or therapy in rarer cases).