Prayer for Schizophrenia

Merciful God, we commend into Your keeping all those who suffer from the mental illness of schizophrenia and their loved ones. Keep them sheltered within Your Sacred Heart. Guide them to effective treatment, encourage them in their regimen, give them hope of a balanced, sustainable life and a caring community to support them in their needs. May the stigma attached to schizophrenia and other mental illnesses continue to decline, and may research scientists and psychiatrists find new and better ways to treat this illness.

We pray for medication without debilitating side effects. We pray for secondary mental illnesses such as depression or alcoholism to also be addressed and treated. We pray for the relatives and loved ones of the sufferers of schizophrenia, that they may be gentle, patient, and courageous in their care for them. We also pray that You may give them the graces necessary to undertake such a task and that they may have support as well.

We earnestly pray most of all that those who are diagnosed may recover completely from their illness. May the intercession of their loved ones, the saints, our Blessed Mother, and their own prayers move You to make such a total recovery possible. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.