OCD Care in Lake City, SC
Careful evaluation and medication management for obsessive-compulsive disorder, with exposure-based therapy or a referral to an ERP specialist, for adults in Lake City and nearby Florence and Hartsville by secure video.
OCD Care for Adults in Lake City
Hope Behavioral Medicine provides OCD care for adults in Lake City and across Florence 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 Lake City
Compared with Florence County as a whole, Lake City has higher estimates for frequent mental distress, short sleep, lack of social and emotional support, loneliness and fair or poor self-rated health and lower estimates for depression.
Against the median of the 34 South Carolina communities on this site, Lake City sits above the middle on frequent mental distress, short sleep, lack of social and emotional support, loneliness and fair or poor self-rated health and below it on depression.
Lake City has the highest estimate for loneliness of the 34 communities on this site, and loneliness often travels with depression and anxiety.
For lack of social and emotional support, Lake City ranks second-highest among them.
Its estimate for fair or poor self-rated health is the second-highest of the group.
Among nearby communities on this site, the frequent mental distress estimate for Lake City sits above Florence; about level with Hartsville.
An estimated 29.4 percent of households in Lake City have no broadband subscription, the third-highest share of the 34 communities on this site, and a video visit needs a steady connection on a phone, tablet or computer.
| Measure | Lake City | Florence County |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with 14 or more days of poor mental health in the past month | 18.4 percent | 17.6 percent |
| Adults ever told by a health professional they have depression | 20.7 percent | 22.7 percent |
| Adults who usually sleep less than seven hours a night | 42.8 percent | 37.4 percent |
| Adults who lack social and emotional support | 30.7 percent | 26.2 percent |
| Adults who report feeling lonely | 37.9 percent | 35.3 percent |
| Adults who rate their own health as fair or poor | 28.9 percent | 23.1 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.
Florence County Figures From County Health Rankings
In Florence County, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2025, counts 18 percent of adults with frequent mental distress, above the statewide 16.7 percent, the ninth-highest frequent mental distress figure among the South Carolina counties in this data, while CDC PLACES gives Lake City the tenth-highest frequent mental distress estimate of the 34 communities on this site.
| Measure | Florence County | South Carolina |
|---|---|---|
| Average poor mental health days adults reported in the past month | 5.6 days | 5.2 days |
| Adults with two weeks or more of poor mental health in the past month | 18 percent | 16.7 percent |
| Adults who usually sleep less than seven hours a night | 38.2 percent | 36.6 percent |
| Mental health providers, counted against residents | one for every 332 residents | one for every 437 residents |
| Working-age adults with no health insurance | 13 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 Lake City
ArtFields, an art competition and exhibition, fills more than 40 venues across downtown Lake City; video visits fit into a busy workday.
NASA astronaut Dr. Ronald E. McNair, lost in the 1986 Challenger explosion, was a Lake City native, and the town honors him; we see students 18 and older by secure video, around class schedules.
As late as 1941, Lake City was the fourth-largest truck-farm market in the United States and the world leader in stringless beans.
The town adopted the name Lake City on Christmas Eve 1883.
By 1898 the farming town of Lake City had become the leading strawberry cropland in South Carolina.
Campuses serving Lake City include Florence-Darlington Technical College (Lake City campus).
Lake City's economy centers on agriculture and the arts.
Florence 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 Lake City residents see a provider without waiting for a local opening.
Sources for these local facts: hyperallergic.com,South Carolina Encyclopedia,en.wikipedia.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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Adults anywhere in South Carolina, including Florence and Hartsville, can see us by secure video, or you can browse every South Carolina community we serve
OCD Care in Lake City: Questions
Yes: adults in Lake City and the rest of Florence County can see Hope Behavioral Medicine by secure video, with in-person visits at our West Ashley office in Charleston for anyone who prefers them, and a video visit needs no ride; for comparison, Lake City has the third-highest estimate for transportation barriers of the 34 communities on this site.
In part: our nurse practitioners and therapists can bring exposure-based techniques into cognitive behavioral therapy by secure video, and when full exposure and response prevention fits better, we refer you to an ERP specialist and keep your plan connected.
CDC PLACES puts it at 20.7 percent of adults in Lake City, the fifth-lowest figure among the 34 South Carolina communities on this site, against 22.7 percent across Florence County.
In Florence County, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2025, counts one mental health provider for every 332 residents, more providers for its population than the statewide one for every 437 residents, the fifth-lowest residents per mental health provider figure among the South Carolina counties in this data, while CDC PLACES gives Lake City the second-highest lack of social and emotional support estimate of the 34 communities on this site.
Video visits run Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, and you can book one during a break or before or after work, with no drive.
Hope Behavioral Medicine is not an emergency service: call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, at any hour, and in an emergency call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.