Prayer for healing from depression

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Hello,

I am diagnosed with moderate clinical depression and have struggled with depression and anxiety for years. It is difficult because I have social anxiety and am constantly low on energy which leads to isolation, which in turn worsens the depression. I often feel that I am making very little progress and have a tendency to lose hope of getting better (also a symptom of the depression). Please pray that I may find healing and that my mental health will improve and not get worse.
 
May you place all of your trust in the Lord and remain centered upon him. May the Blessed Virgin help you to cope with your depression and assist you to be delivered from it. May you pray ceaselessly for the Lord’s assistance in your necessities and trust in him to help you the best way possible for your soul. May the Eucharist and prayer give you strength and healing. May the Lord give you his peace. Amen.
 
Lord if there is any other health cause for low energy and depressed feeling please lead CompSciGuy to find that cause and appropriate treatment.

CompSciGuy, my husband was regarded as one of the 20 percent who have no chance of healing from severe long-term depression that crippled him. He had no friends, dreaded family events, and no interest in most things. He has improved (I just heard him whistling) he had no motivation for your, fatigue, poor sleep, irritability, sensory over-sensitivity that caused exhaustion… all the classical symptoms of prolonged severe depression after stress-breakdown, so when you feel hopeless…there is still hope. He actually has a hobby now and gets together with like-minded men once a week, which is amazing. Almost unbelievable if you knew him and the past.

You will be in my prayers that you will find a way through to a better and happier life.
 
My prayers are with you. I pray that God and St. Dymphna will help you face these challenges and that they may cure you from these afflictions.
 
Prayer to St. Dymphna:

Lord Jesus Christ, You have willed that St. Dymphna should be invoked by thousands of clients as the patroness of nervous and mental disease and have brought it about that her interest in these patients should be an inspiration to and an ideal of charity throughout the world. Grant that, through the prayers of this youthful martyr of purity, those who suffer from nervous and mental illness everywhere on earth may be helped and consoled. I recommend to You in particular CompSciguy.

Be pleased to hear the prayers of St. Dymphna and of Your Blessed Mother. Give those whom I recommend the patience to bear with their affliction and resignation to do Your divine will. Give them the consolation they need and especially the cure they so much desire, if it be Your will. Through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.
 
Heavenly Father, in your mercy keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Amen.
 
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on him and on the whole world.
 
Praying for healing. May the light of Christ shine forth from within and continue to guide you gently and lovingly through the path of peace and healing. Within our darkest nights, You kindle the fire that never dies away, that never dies away. (Taize). We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
 
O God, we humbly beseech You through Your servant, St. Dymphna, who sealed with her blood the love she bore You, to grant relief to those who suffer from depression, especially CompSciGuy.
St. Dymphna, helper of the mentally afflicted, pray for us.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

I know where you are at. I myself am recovering from depression. Just remember, that during these darkest moments, as you are trapped in the labyrinth of life, look up! For there- there will be the stars, His light, forcing its way through the gloom, to lead you home.
It is hard, and a battle, but you will be so much stronger for it.

In Christ through Mary,
Nevermore
 
Dear Jesus, I walk in the valley of darkness for I suffer from depression. I feel unloved. rejected d, useless to myself and useless to others. I feel lost in a world I no longer understand. At times, I want to sleep and never wake up again. Lord, I believe that Your love is a transforming love. Jesus, Son of David have pity on me. Out of the depths, I cry to you.

Lord, even though 1 feel nothing, I still praise you for the wonder of my being. You have formed me in my mother’s womb and watched over me to this moment. I am precious in Your eyes and You love me. On the Cross, you shed your blood for me. You have carved me in the palm of Your hand. For all this I give you thanks and praise.
May your Precious Blood give new life to me and to all those who suffer as I do. Take each one of us and hug us to your sacred and loving heart. Through your glorious wounds may we be healed.

Dear Jesus, when you fed the crowd in the desert, you wished to gather up the fragments, lest anything be lost. As I wander through a desert and darkness of my own, I ask you to gather up the fragments of this shattered being, lest anything be lost. Through the prophet, Joel, Yo promise to restore the years that the locusts have eaten. I ask you, lay Your hands gently on my weary head and restore me. Let your face shine upon me and give me back the peace and the joy that has been lost.
Amen

from circleofprayer.com/depression-prayer.html
 
CompSciGuy said:
Hello,

I am diagnosed with moderate clinical depression and have struggled with depression and anxiety for years. It is difficult because I have social anxiety and am constantly low on energy which leads to isolation, which in turn worsens the depression. I often feel that I am making very little progress and have a tendency to lose hope of getting better (also a symptom of the depression). Please pray that I may find healing and that my mental health will improve and not get worse.
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Praying for your intentions….

Lord Jesus, You have said, “Learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart.” With confidence in Your loving heart which offers rest to weary souls, we come to You in this time of special need. In Your unfailing love, read the prayer that is written on our hearts, and grant the grace that we ask of You, in accordance with Your holy will. In Your name we pray.
Amen.
 
Praying that your depression and anxiety lift and you can live life without these barriers. Since you have been diagnosed, I’m assuming that you are on some sort of anti-depressant medication (as well as anti-anxiety). I know that some people regard these medications as a crutch, but science has come a long way and these things can give people some real relief, so I would suggest being open to them.

Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,
our Life, our Sweetness, and our Hope.
To Thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.
To Thee do we send up our sighs mourning
and weeping in this valley of tears.
Turn then, most gracious Advocate,
Thine Eyes of Mercy toward us,
and after this our exile show us the
Blessed Fruit of thy Womb, Jesus.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
Pray for us O Holy Mother of God
That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
 
Lord Jesus Christ, you know all our pain and sorrow and bore them for us on the cross. In this suffering this child of yours now experiences allow him to know your presence, strengthen his faith when he would despair, and give me the assurance of your eternal love and healing power. Father, you are our refuge in good and in bad times. In your infinite mercy, bring peace, comfort and freedom from anxiety and depression. Please hear our prayers for CompSciGuy. Amen
 
Pater noster, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.

Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.

Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
 
jeberle1970 said:
Praying that your depression and anxiety lift and you can live life without these barriers. Since you have been diagnosed, I’m assuming that you are on some sort of anti-depressant medication (as well as anti-anxiety). I know that some people regard these medications as a crutch, but science has come a long way and these things can give people some real relief, so I would suggest being open to them.

Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,
our Life, our Sweetness, and our Hope.
To Thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.
To Thee do we send up our sighs mourning
and weeping in this valley of tears.
Turn then, most gracious Advocate,
Thine Eyes of Mercy toward us,
and after this our exile show us the
Blessed Fruit of thy Womb, Jesus.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
Pray for us O Holy Mother of God
That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
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Thank you so much for your prayers. To answer your question, yes, the doctor did prescribe me zoloft, but I had to stop taking it because my body was too reactive to it; it wouldn’t let me sleep. I was on it for three days and couldn’t get more than three light hours of sleep each night that I was on it. After the third night I stopped taking it because I couldn’t bear the physical stress of going three days without sleeping; the fourth night was my last sleepless night before my body was flushed of the medicine. I was physically exhausted and mentally anguished; I felt panicky, I had the shakes and I was throwing up my own bile. At the time I was convinced that I was going to die. I am better now, and naturally I’ve been a little wary about medications. I am still getting therapy, and I may talk again about some possible alternatives.

Anxiety has greatly improved, especially (to my great relief) the social anxiety, which has plagued me for many years and I believe is one of the main causes of my depression. I still have depressive episodes nearly every day; they are worst in the morning and at night. But I don’t feel as lonely anymore as I have been overcoming social anxiety and improving my thought processes, moving past self-hatred and opening myself to others. That really makes the biggest difference. Faith continues to carry me through each day, and I really truly believe that I am blessed by all of your prayers. If it were not for faith I don’t think I’d be here. I want to do my best to pray for all of you. If I can offer my sufferings for others in this forum struggling I would like to do that.
 
Prayers for you to be encouraged in little ways by His Holy Spirit and that you can actually SEE the moving of Him in Your life. Praying for seeds of Hope to be planted in your soul. Lord plant and water these seeds and bring others to help care for this Your child. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

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