Cost of OCD treatment

The treatment of OCD is carried out on an outpatient basis, and the cost of treatment mainly includes several aspects: first, the cost of examination; second, the cost of medication; and third, the cost of psychotherapy. First, the cost of examination is mainly to exclude organic problems before diagnosis, or to ensure that patients do not have physical diseases that affect drug treatment, the cost is about 1000 yuan, such as laboratory and instrumentation tests, blood sampling, electroencephalogram, brain CT, etc. Second, medication is currently mainly using new antidepressants, that is, choosing 5-hydroxytryptamine reuptake inhibitors, such as paroxetine, citalopram, fluvoxamine, etc.. Patients who do not have good results can also use tricyclic antidepressants, such as clomipramine. This part of the cost probably ranges from several hundred to several thousand dollars, because traditional antidepressants are cheaper, such as tricyclic antidepressants a bottle of 100 tablets, a few dollars, a dozen dollars, a month is almost 100 yuan or so. New antidepressants are a little more expensive, but there are also domestic and imported, the price difference is also relatively large, cheap a few dozen dollars a box, a box of a dozen tablets, expensive a few hundred dollars a box, also a dozen tablets, the cost of a month the most expensive may need 2000-3000 yuan. Third, is the psychotherapy, psychotherapy each time the charge is 200-500 yuan ranging, once a week, the cost of a month is about 1000-3000 yuan. The cost of such OCD treatment for a month, the first month may cost between 5,000-10,000 yuan, as the treatment proceeds, if the patient has good results, the cost will be less and less.