Low comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder in patients with major depressive disorder - Findings from a European multicenter study

In summary, our findings suggest that concurrent OCD in MDD (1) has a low prevalence rate compared to the reverse prevalence rates of comorbid MDD in OCD, (2) provokes higher suicide risk, and (3) is associated with a characteristic prescription pattern reflected by a high amount of polypsychopharmaceutical treatment strategies comprising particularly augmentation with antipsychotics and benzodiazepines.