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Summary
- Short prayers for someone with a mental illness cover racing thoughts, depression, being unable to pray, unwanted thoughts, appointments, new treatment, sleep and feeling like a burden.
- Prayers for a family member cover illness, a hospital stay, refusing help and the strain on the person caring for them.
- Three family prayers are quoted from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer: “For Quiet Confidence,” “For Trustfulness” and “At Night.”
- Elijah asked to die (1 Kings 19:4), Paul “despaired even of life” (2 Corinthians 1:8) and Jesus said, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death” (Matthew 26:38).
- Catholics ask the prayers of St. Dymphna, whose shrine at Gheel in Belgium became a colony where the mentally ill lived with local families; the Orthodox Church in America describes Holy Unction as a sacrament of “mental healing.”
- Crisis help: 988 in the US, Samaritans 116 123 in the UK and Ireland, and 8 800 2000 122 in Russia for children, teenagers and parents.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (1 Kings 19:4–8; Psalm 4:8; 42:11; 88:3; 94:19; 139:14; Isaiah 30:15; Psalm 46:10; Matthew 26:38; Romans 8:26; 2 Corinthians 1:8; Galatians 6:2; 2 Timothy 1:7). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Family Prayer, “At Night,” pp. 594–595; “For Quiet Confidence,” p. 595; “For Trustfulness,” p. 596. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- Kirsch, Johann Peter. “St. Dymphna.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05221b.htm
- Orthodox Church in America. “Holy Unction.” The Orthodox Faith, vol. 2, Worship. https://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith/worship/the-sacraments/holy-unction
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. “Help Someone Else.” https://988lifeline.org/help-someone-else/
- Samaritans. “Contact a Samaritan.” https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/
- Fund for Support of Children in Difficult Life Situations (Фонд поддержки детей, находящихся в трудной жизненной ситуации). Helpline for children, teenagers and parents, 8 800 2000 122. https://fond-detyam.ru/
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