Good St. Dymphna, you were a young woman who fled violence and kept your faith when a mind near you had broken. Patron of those with nervous and mental affliction, look on me (or on N.) in this illness of the mind or the nerves. Obtain peace, wise help, and the patience to take it. Let no shame keep us from a doctor, a confessor, or a friend. Amen.
Prayer to St. Dymphna
Anxiety, depression, panic, any illness of the mind. Her shrine is at Geel in Belgium, where the town learned to house the sick as neighbors.
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Where it comes from
St. Dymphna, 7th century. The Church’s old patron for mental suffering.
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