OCD Care in Sumter, SC
Careful evaluation and medication management for obsessive-compulsive disorder, with exposure-based therapy or a referral to an ERP specialist, for adults in Sumter and nearby Orangeburg, Newberry and Columbia by secure video.
OCD Care for Adults in Sumter
Hope Behavioral Medicine provides OCD care for adults in Sumter and across Sumter 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 Sumter
Compared with Sumter County as a whole, Sumter has higher estimates for short sleep, loneliness and fair or poor self-rated health, while frequent mental distress, depression and lack of social and emotional support are about even.
Against the median of the 34 South Carolina communities on this site, Sumter sits above the middle on short sleep, lack of social and emotional support, loneliness and fair or poor self-rated health and below it on depression, while frequent mental distress is close to the middle.
Sumter has the second-highest estimate for short sleep of the 34 communities on this site, and poor sleep and mental health tend to pull on each other.
For depression, Sumter ranks eighth-lowest among them.
Its estimate for lack of social and emotional support is the tenth-highest of the group.
Among nearby communities on this site, the frequent mental distress estimate for Sumter sits below Orangeburg, Newberry and Columbia.
An estimated 18.8 percent of households in Sumter have no broadband subscription, the thirteenth-highest share of the 34 communities on this site, and a video visit needs a steady connection on a phone, tablet or computer.
| Measure | Sumter | Sumter County |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with 14 or more days of poor mental health in the past month | 17.8 percent | 17.4 percent |
| Adults ever told by a health professional they have depression | 21.1 percent | 21 percent |
| Adults who usually sleep less than seven hours a night | 43.2 percent | 41.9 percent |
| Adults who lack social and emotional support | 26.5 percent | 26.3 percent |
| Adults who report feeling lonely | 35 percent | 34.5 percent |
| Adults who rate their own health as fair or poor | 22.9 percent | 22.4 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.
Sumter County Figures From County Health Rankings
In Sumter County, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2025, counts 17.5 percent of adults with frequent mental distress, above the statewide 16.7 percent, the ninth-lowest frequent mental distress figure among the South Carolina counties in this data, while CDC PLACES gives Sumter the twelfth-highest frequent mental distress estimate of the 34 communities on this site.
| Measure | Sumter County | South Carolina |
|---|---|---|
| Average poor mental health days adults reported in the past month | 5.5 days | 5.2 days |
| Adults with two weeks or more of poor mental health in the past month | 17.5 percent | 16.7 percent |
| Adults who usually sleep less than seven hours a night | 43.2 percent | 36.6 percent |
| Mental health providers, counted against residents | one for every 548 residents | one for every 437 residents |
| Working-age adults with no health insurance | 13.4 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 Sumter
Sumter carries the name of General Thomas Sumter, the Revolutionary War's Fighting Gamecock; starting over in a new place often means rebuilding friendships and routines from scratch.
Continental's Sumter tire plant, founded in 2012, has more than 1,200 workers making passenger and light truck tires; video visits can fit around demanding shift schedules, with no drive.
Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter is headquarters of Ninth Air Force, also called U.S. Air Forces Central.
Roughly one in seven Sumter County adults is a veteran, against about one in ten in neighboring Richland County.
With nearly 6,000 jobs, manufacturing is the largest employment sector in Sumter County.
Sumter's Swan Lake Iris Gardens is the only public park in the country with all eight swan species.
Campuses serving Sumter include Morris College, Central Carolina Technical College and USC Sumter.
Sumter's economy centers on the military and tire and medical device manufacturing.
Sumter 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 Sumter residents see a provider without waiting for a local opening.
Sources for these local facts: sumtersc.gov,continental.com,en.wikipedia.org,lmi.sc.gov,U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2025.
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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OCD Care in Sumter: Questions
Yes: adults in Sumter and the rest of Sumter 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, Sumter has the tenth-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 21.1 percent of adults in Sumter, the eighth-lowest figure among the 34 South Carolina communities on this site, against 21 percent across Sumter County.
In Sumter County, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2025, counts one mental health provider for every 548 residents, fewer providers for its population than the statewide one for every 437 residents, the eleventh-lowest residents per mental health provider figure among the South Carolina counties in this data, while CDC PLACES gives Sumter the tenth-highest lack of social and emotional support estimate of the 34 communities on this site.
The plans we accept are Medicare, most major commercial plans, and all South Carolina Medicaid managed care plans except Select Health (First Choice), and our front desk checks your coverage before your first visit.
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.