I have gone strictly to community mental health clinics. I have received excellent care. I have been in therapy on and off for about 25 years. The only problem I found was they depend on grants and sometimes they don't get their funding so sometimes the therapists want to move on. I have been with therapists as long as 7 years and as short as one year. I have come a long way. I think it all depends on who you get as a therapist. Give it a shot. The good thing is the doctors and your therapist and case manager come up with a treatment plan for you and they work together on it usually behind the scenes. In order to get meds at most clinics they want you to have a therapist so I don't think they throw drugs at you.