We truly live in weird times. Therapists are here solely to drug normal people so that they become ideal wage slaves instead of assisting those who are damaged. Most people here dread being directed to a mental health specialist and you would expect the opposite in a normal functioning society. Yet some will claim that we are the weird ones for refusing to trust these mental health institutions --which have proved themselves to be useless over and over again. I would not expect any better in times where health industry aims to cure people only to a certain degree so that the patients will visit the hospitals again or where education system aims to police our thoughts so that nobody starts thinking more than they are supposed to. Pure madness! Shame on those authorities that turned your situation hopeless.
Regardless, I am happy that you have healthy teeth. I am not a mental health expert and I doubt that I can offer you sound solutions but I could try reading your problems if you want to and if that would make you feel better.
Therapists usually don't drug people. Psychiatrists do and they get really pissed off if you tell them no or question the drugs they want want to prescribe you. The last psychiatrist I saw threatened my mom, telling her over the phone that she was going to put me in a mental hospital if she didn't allow her to prescribe me prozac. For context, a large part of why my mom was wary about said medication was because one of the side effects was suicidal thoughts and I had attempted suicide not that long ago.
Most therapists cannot prescribe drugs but you are right about the other stuff in regards to them. To make matters worse, I've heard a lot of stories about them doing things that you would think they wouldn't, since they should know better. This includes them quickly jumping to the conclusion that their patients have repressed memories because they can't remember something, despite there usually being better reasons for why they may not remember an event (such as it happening during early childhood), trying to uncover repressed memories even though there's a very high chance that all they are doing is inducing false memories into their patients, getting them to do personality quizzes despite most of said quizzes having no evidence to back them up, diagnosing random people they don't know, etc.
While I can be understanding of social workers who help with things, like employment, most social workers are a joke too. I've seen several social workers thoughout my childhood and none of them had any real impact on my life. Most of them were nice but I don't understand the point of them since they weren't that helpful for even the simplest of problems. They are also guilty of a lot of the things I mentioned about psychotheraptists. In grade 5, the clincian I saw, who was usually with my lawyer, tried to claim that I had a learning disability because I was doing poorly in my classes at the time. She based this on my shitty grades alone, despite the fact that my grades were fine the year prior.
Psychiatry and Psychotherapy is genuinely a joke and most of the people in those professions are usually very self-absorbed. They can at best provide you with the illusion of improvement but that's it. I'm not that suprised about what happended to the op since that sounds exactly like something they would do. They only give a shit about filling their own egos and making money off of you.
Also, I'm sorry about that happening to you op. Most clinical psychologists and psychiatrists are pretty dumb and tend to get shocked very easily, so them dropping you likely doesn't reflect you being a lost cause. I was able to shocked a hospital psychologist at 15 by just mentioning the fact that I had been starving myself and had a nightmare about my step-mother to trying murder me. That's it! Don't take them dropping you to heart. They don't know shit.
