Mental Health
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"As a Church, we recognize that mental health is a critical component of our overall health and wellbeing. The Office of Mental Health Ministry seeks to accompany those with mental health needs in our parish and school communities in a Catholic, sustainable, ethical, and meaningful way. The focus of this ministry is education, accompaniment, and advocacy.
The Office of Mental Health Ministry is not a clinical resource and is not intended to serve as a substitute for treatment or counseling with a qualified professional. We do not diagnose or treat mental illness, but rather serve as an avenue to provide literacy in mental health to promote the reduction of mental illness stigma, encourage conversations around mental illness, and create a safe environment for individuals to share and seek help surrounding their mental illness (Catholic Mental Health Ministry Guidelines, 2019).
Our mission is to help create pastoral environments where people living with mental illness can meet, share their experiences and their Catholic faith with others, and to grow spiritually in their relationship with God.
Remember, you are not alone." - Diocese of Phoenix, Office of Mental Health MinistryFor more information, please visit: https://dphx.org/mentalhealth/
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Pope Francis' Prayer Intention for October
Pope's Prayer for the Synod
This month the Pope prays for the synod. We pray that the Church supports those of us who live with a mental illness by embodying the themes of the synod to listen, dialogue and reach out to the peripheries. We pray for the fulfillment of Pope Francis’s vision for a Church that “immerses herself in today’s problems and needs, bandaging wounds and healing broken hearts with the balm of God”. We pray for a Church that listens to and accompanies those who live with a mental illness.
A couple ways that we can accompany those living with mental illness and those who care for them is by praying with them and for them as well as walking with them and for them.
NAMI Walk October
Litany:
Living With Mental Illness -
Mental Health Information
- ADAA (Anxiety & Depression Association of America)
- St. James Cathedral Mental Health Ministry
- Diocesan Office of Mental Healthy Ministry
- San Diego Diocesan Office for Family Life & Spirituality - Mental Health
- NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Health)
- Diocese of Phoenix Mental Health Resources
- Trauma Treatment with EMDR, CBT, & Somatic-Based Interventions
- USCCB Domestic Violence Awareness
- Prayer for Victims of Domestic Violence
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