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OCD Care in Hartsville, SC

Careful evaluation and medication management for obsessive-compulsive disorder, with exposure-based therapy or a referral to an ERP specialist, for adults in Hartsville and nearby Lake City and Florence by secure video.

OCD Care for Adults in Hartsville

Hope Behavioral Medicine provides OCD care for adults in Hartsville and across Darlington County by secure video, with in-person visits at our West Ashley office in Charleston for anyone who prefers them; we accept Medicare, most major commercial plans, and all South Carolina Medicaid managed care plans except Select Health (First Choice).

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is not among the CDC PLACES measures, so these figures are the nearest measures: frequent mental distress, the share of adults with two weeks or more of poor mental health in a month, and the share ever told by a health professional that they have depression.

OCD Care: What the Local Figures Show in Hartsville

Compared with Darlington County as a whole, Hartsville has higher estimates for frequent mental distress, depression and loneliness, while short sleep, lack of social and emotional support and fair or poor self-rated health are about even.

Against the median of the 34 South Carolina communities on this site, Hartsville sits above the middle on frequent mental distress, depression, loneliness and fair or poor self-rated health, while short sleep and lack of social and emotional support are close to the middle.

Hartsville has the fourth-highest estimate for depression of the 34 communities on this site, and depression is one of the most treatable mental health conditions.

For frequent mental distress, Hartsville ranks seventh-highest among them.

Its estimate for loneliness is the eighth-highest of the group.

Among nearby communities on this site, the frequent mental distress estimate for Hartsville sits above Florence; about level with Lake City.

An estimated 20.7 percent of households in Hartsville have no broadband subscription, the twelfth-highest share of the 34 communities on this site, and a video visit needs a steady connection on a phone, tablet or computer.

CDC PLACES estimates for Hartsville and Darlington County (CDC PLACES)(CDC American Community Survey data)
Measure Hartsville Darlington County
Adults with 14 or more days of poor mental health in the past month 18.8 percent 17.8 percent
Adults ever told by a health professional they have depression 23.9 percent 22.9 percent
Adults who usually sleep less than seven hours a night 37.5 percent 37.6 percent
Adults who lack social and emotional support 25.6 percent 25.8 percent
Adults who report feeling lonely 35.5 percent 34.3 percent
Adults who rate their own health as fair or poor 25.6 percent 25.4 percent

Figures in this section come from CDC PLACES, 2025 release (model-based estimates from 2022 and 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data), with the American Community Survey, 2017 to 2021, via CDC for households without broadband; ranks compare the 34 South Carolina communities on this site.

Darlington County Figures From County Health Rankings

In Darlington County, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2025, counts 19 percent of adults with frequent mental distress, above the statewide 16.7 percent, the fifth-highest frequent mental distress figure among the South Carolina counties in this data, while CDC PLACES gives Hartsville the seventh-highest frequent mental distress estimate of the 34 communities on this site.

County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2025 figures for Darlington County and South Carolina (County Health Rankings & Roadmaps)
Measure Darlington County South Carolina
Average poor mental health days adults reported in the past month 5.7 days 5.2 days
Adults with two weeks or more of poor mental health in the past month 19 percent 16.7 percent
Adults who usually sleep less than seven hours a night 38.9 percent 36.6 percent
Mental health providers, counted against residents one for every 630 residents one for every 437 residents
Working-age adults with no health insurance 14 percent 13.4 percent

County Health Rankings & Roadmaps builds these county figures from the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2022 for the survey measures, the CMS National Provider Identification file, 2024 for provider counts and the Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, 2022 for insurance; ranks compare the South Carolina counties in this data.

Living and Working in Hartsville

The Robinson nuclear plant near Hartsville has run commercially since 1971, and in 2026 federal regulators extended its license to 2050; video visits fit into a busy workday.

Coker University has its campus in Hartsville; we see students 18 and older by secure video, around class schedules.

Railroad connections made Hartsville the leading cotton market in the Pee Dee, a town once called the region's industrial beehive.

Captain Thomas Hart bought the original Hartsville town site in 1817, and the town was incorporated in 1891.

Sonoco, the packaging maker, is a Fortune 1000 company, and Hartsville is the smallest city in America to host such a headquarters.

Campuses serving Hartsville include Coker University and Florence-Darlington Technical College (Hartsville campus).

Hartsville's economy centers on packaging manufacturing and nuclear power.

Darlington County is federally designated as a mental health professional shortage area, meaning there are too few mental health professionals for the people who live there; telehealth lets Hartsville residents see a provider without waiting for a local opening.

Sources for these local facts: wmbfnews.com,coker.edu,South Carolina Encyclopedia,nesasc.org.

OCD Care for Busy, Growing Communities

Demanding jobs and a busy household can hide how much time rituals take until they start costing hours each day.

Treatment can include medication when indicated, decided jointly with the patient, exposure-based therapy or both, with follow-up visits by video.

OCD brings intrusive, unwanted thoughts and the rituals meant to quiet them, and people with it generally spend more than an hour a day on obsessions or compulsions.

Request an appointment for OCD care, call (843) 737-0312, or read about OCD care by telehealth across South Carolina and in person at our West Ashley office.

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