Bipolar disorder

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Please pray for me and my living with this illness. I had entered a Cistercian community with the intention of living out my life there when I had my first episode. This was was the first of many over a two year period before I was diagnosed and given the medication that I need. I had to spend two months in a mental hospital where I received the care that I desperately needed.

Mental illness is a creepy disease to have. It infiltrates all areas of your life and leaves nothing untouched or unmolested. This includes your spiritual life. My delusions carried themselves into my relationship with the Church and what I believed God was askikng of me at all times.

It is better now and the rosary was a great help when I was too afraid of myself to sit and pray in silence with the Word of God.
I hope to continue my life in a religious community. I have found two that will accept someone with my disability. But there were more refusals from communities than welcomings.

So please pray for me that my medication works and that I persevere in trying to please God.
 
Praying very hard to St. Dymphna for you and that your medication will free you from this disease. Hang in there and God love you!
 
My mother’s bi-polar, and probably my sister as well, so I have an idea of what you’re going through. You will be in my prayers. Stay strong, He will give you nothing you can’t handle. You’re in His loving Hands, don’t forget that.
 
i too know people with bipolar. sorry for your struggles, but jesus is with you every step of the way. prayers for dealing with it and for healing too.
 
For your prayer request:

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

God Bless You
 
Mental illness is definately hard to deal with. I’ve been diagnosed with Major Depression, Dysthmia (a mild, chronic for of depression), Anxiety disorder, Obsessive/Compulive disorder (occ), and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) with avoidant, dependent and paranoid tendencies. Life is just harder to take than most “normal” people think.
 
For the longest time I struggled to understand how God could allow mental suffering. My dad also suffered from bipolar disorder. I still don’t comprehend this mystery, but I have been helped by meditating on our Lord’s agony in the garden. At this time He took upon Himself all the mental suffering that ever has been or ever will be. I have been greatly helped by the soon-to-be Blessed John Henry Newman’s sermon on the mental suffering of our Lord in his Passion. You can find it by Googling Newman reader. Blessed Cardinal Newman also seems to have suffered from depression in his lifetime. This unmerited suffering was part of his living out God’s call, the groaning of Creation to be perfected, which led to his sanctity and the conversion of many, including, I believe, myself. I also commend you to his prayers and to those of St Benedict Joseph Labre and Blessed Charles de Foucauld who also struggled for many years to discover their vocation. God has a plan for you. Heave up psalms and sighs too deep for words to Him. May He bless you.
 
Praying for your intentions…

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and in the hour of our death. Amen.
 
“Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Wounds of Our Lord Jesus Christ to heal those of our souls.”
“My Jesus, pardon and mercy, by the merits of Thy Holy Wounds.”
 
I and my fiance will definately pray for you. I really understand, because I was diagnosed with bipolar as well. I also suffered from a dissociative disorder, which means I have had a lot of blank spaces in my life that I can’t account for.

My fiance is just incredibly gifted with praying for others. I was a pagan when we met, and he started praying for me to convert. About a year later, we started dating and 3 months later I did become a Christian. I’ve since been through RCIA and come into the Church. What a wonderful blessing that has been for both of us.

And he prayed for me and worked with me when I would dissociate, calling me back and praying with me and for me. In March of this year we celebrated a year without me having a single dissociative episode.

I didn’t want to bore you with all about me, just let you know I understand and I know prayer helps.
 
Thank you all for your generosity of spirit. I appreciate all of your prayers and your sharing your personal stories. May God bless each of you. Kate
 
onaquest said:
Please pray for me and my living with this illness. I had entered a Cistercian community with the intention of living out my life there when I had my first episode. This was was the first of many over a two year period before I was diagnosed and given the medication that I need. I had to spend two months in a mental hospital where I received the care that I desperately needed.

Mental illness is a creepy disease to have. It infiltrates all areas of your life and leaves nothing untouched or unmolested. This includes your spiritual life. My delusions carried themselves into my relationship with the Church and what I believed God was askikng of me at all times.

It is better now and the rosary was a great help when I was too afraid of myself to sit and pray in silence with the Word of God.
I hope to continue my life in a religious community. I have found two that will accept someone with my disability. But there were more refusals from communities than welcomings.

So please pray for me that my medication works and that I persevere in trying to please God.
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Prayer of the Sick for Vocations
Lord, you are a good and loving Father, so I have great confidence that you are listening to me.Today we need to pray for my member who got bipolar disorder may God accept his pray. I offer his sufferings and illness and personal inconveniences for Your greater honor and glory.Amen
 
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