Schizophrenia is one of the most scariest of all mental illnesses. I have been writing on mental illness for quite some time despite the insensitive views of others who can’t understand the gravity of the situation.
Schizophrenics cannot distinguish as to what is real & what’s not. They keep on seeing their controller. They hear voices. They think that someone is plotting against them.
Yesterday one of my mafia members shared this link with us on FB. Someone she knows is suffering from schizophrenia & she has found a prayer for the victims; it would be very kind on your part to pray for this patient.
I have received quite negative response from some of my so-called friends also when I have written on suicide & patients suffering from mental illnesses. These are messed up illnesses & you have to be human to understand them. Yeah it sounds blunt, but I don’t know how else to say it in a nice way. As I have said a zillion times on my blog that we can’t experience each & every calamity to know how bad it is. If you haven’t developed your mental faculty to assimilate & digest such problems, it’s not my headache. And if you can’t be sympathetic towards such patients, refrain from leaving comments that these people don’t have strong faith. Just be glad that you have one & you’re not suffering from any such disease or have not witnessed tragedies that trigger these kind of illnesses.
Anyhow, this is the prayer:
You are the great healer, the only living God, ruler of the universe. We are humbled by your love for us as fragile humans. Lord, we don't understand why our loved one suffers from schizophrenia; it's so hard to understand. But we come to you asking for your healing hand upon our loved one. Please heal her brain. If there are latent viruses please demolish them. If there are mutated genes, please fix them. Please heal every cell in her body.
If it's not in your will to heal her completely at this time, please help her to take her medicine as prescribed, today and every day for the rest of her time here on earth. We know that it is very hard, especially for people afflicted with schizophrenia, to stay on their medicine for life, but as this disease is incurable except through a miracle from Your hand, it is so very necessary. Help her to see how much better and safer her life and the lives of those that live and interact with her are when she is on her medicine. Help her want to take it and feel good about taking it.
Help her to be free of the disease created voices in her head. If that's not possible, help her to distinguish real voices from imaginary schizophrenia produced voices. Help her to be grounded in reality and to more easily tell the difference between what is going on in real life and any hallucinations or delusions put into her brain by the illness. Please help her to organize her thoughts, pay attention to real life, and remember that we love her deeply and want only the best for her. Please help her to communicate rationally and calmly. Please help her to manage her day in a productive way.
Please let her to feel your loving arms around her right now. Please give her peace and contentment. If she does not already know you as her personal Savior, please help her to establish that relationship today. Let her feel your healing presence. Please encourage her heart and mind. Please give strength and wisdom to her care partners and those who live with her. May they feel strengthened and encouraged today. May your loving presence be upon them today as well. We lift up our loved one to you in prayer, Lord. We ask all this according to Your holy will, in Christ Jesus' name. Amen.
Please help her to see that we love her. Please erase the paranoid thoughts and replace them with loving thoughts. Please clear her mind and help her to realize that no one is plotting against her, no one wants to hurt her and that she is safe. Please help her to be calm and help her to control her mannerisms and keep her voice volume reasonable and restrain herself from hitting, pushing, punching, or otherwise lashing out physically.
Please give her peace. Please fill her mind and spirit with Your love so that instead of feeling persecuted, suspicious and tense, she feels calm, peaceful and relaxed. We know all things are possible for you, Lord. Please heal our loved one. Amen.
Source:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/3010140/prayers_for_people_with_schizophrenia.html?cat=34
