My day program is taking too much out of me-Help!

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I recently started doing high school at home to finish up my last year because my emotional state was getting out of control. I was then put in a day (partial) program at a psychiatric facility. I am there for 6 hours a day, not counting the long drive to and from. The therapy is extremely intense and I can hardly stay awake after I get home. I slept 13 hours last night and now I'm just on here because I barely had the energy to get dressed.

Also, the shrinks at my program don't agree with me any more than my former guidance counselor, my parents, or other teens I've met and talked to at the program and at my high school. Everyone is against me and thinks I'm not ready for college, so now I'm "not allowed to go" even though I'm 18, which I know is illegal. My mom tried to compromise and promote driver's ed and some activities for later, but I really want out of this program.

Not only am I even more exhausted than I was in high school, but most of the effectiveness the program had in the beginning has worn off and I also sometimes feel even more depressed and uncomfortable hearing about all of the much worse problems that everyone else has. All the members have issues, but being the only Aspie and the only non-cutter, I am still just as socially isolated as I've ever been.

I'm not sure if I'd be allowed to leave before my official "discharge" and my parents paid over a thousand dollars for me to get help. To be fair, I was "begging for help" while I was in school, even if I mainly just wanted access to the work at home option; not all the therapy that came with it. I've never had luck in therapy before and only committed to the partial because my mother threatened to send me back to high school.

Any thoughts?