Hades a Journey to Heaven: For Those in the Mental and Spiritual Battle of Life

By Lori Butler

This book is a combination of the illusions that have been imprinted into our minds, either by family knowing no better or by the government medical society. In either case, this is her story. Here, we will focus on makeshift images of someone other than ourselves. Mental voices and the labels that are placed upon us to lead us to believe that it is all in our minds and not real. Well, the Bible has concrete proof as to why we should pay close attention to what we allow in our ears, hearts, and mind. This is a portion of her story of how she navigated through the mental system and made it to the other side, all by God’s hand, through the good and the bad.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jul 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9781973667315

Lori Butler

Lori Butler was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1967. She has a degree in Criminal Justice & Law Enforcement. Lori has held careers in Nursing, Enforcement, Behavioral and Juvenile detention centers. She has worked as a clerk in the Federal courts such as the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, in Detroit as well as the City County Building in the personal department. Lori has also had her share of mental breakdowns.

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ISBN: 978-1-9736-6730-8 (sc)

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WestBow Press rev. date: 6/26/2019

Contents

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Introduction

My Courage, My God, through the Mental Fog

Diamonds

Memories

Your Adversary hides in Plain Sight

Being Disconnected from God

Secret Freedom Found

Sneaky Pretender

Backstabbing on high, a Factor of Heaven

Destiny, The Untold Story

Tower of Babel

Mirror Reversed

Trauma of Transition

A Father and his Child

Why Long Suffering

Teach Me.

He Went Barefoot for You

Acknowledgments

Dedication

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This book is dedicated to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I would like to thank him for all the love, support, guidance, correction and the trials and tribulations through life. The Holy Ghost is truly my teacher. In Jesus Name Amen and Amen.

Introduction

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A lot of books have been written in the last twenty years about mental illness, depression, bi-polar, emotional wounds and not to mention inner healing. First let me say that I am not a doctor but are basing my stories on my own experience as a nurse, a treatment specialist, and yes, a patient but not in that order of course.

This book is simply a guide on how to recover when the world and doctors are not listening to you. Within this book you will find a series of different stories on real life problems, which depict my journey to mental health freedom and how I escape the medical system and saved myself through Gods word. These stories will tell of real-life events and thought processes that destroyed my life before it began and if it wasn’t for Jesus followers of all kinds of different religions, I know that one day my suicide attempts would have been accomplished. This book is for my co-suffers in the world where we have been written off and our mouths shut with pills.

We will share techniques and mental tools to bring understanding on why we do the things we do and think the things we think usually leading us back to our mental imprints placed there long before we could speak. The stories are my stories of how through God he handled us to find our way in the world with such stories as a father and his child with guidance and pain. yes, I said pain because that is where you’ll find your gain. And for those that find themselves misdiagnosis and those yet to be diagnosed while living in a mental nightmare and those who sit in mental anguish alone. For those locked up in juvenile homes and not because of their actions but because of the inability or non-actions of those whom were supposed to take care of you. I may not work in the system anymore, but I can be your voice. I remember the rapes you endure, and I remember blowing the whistle act through a phone call only to be fired.

It’s true, you are the lost but there are those of us who could not forget the pain you suffered and are suffering. The complete moral of my focus is to share my reconnection to Jesus and how he saved me from myself and the negativity that was placed within my soul. I heard the voices of negativity whispering in my ear Kill yourself, they don’t love you, and You’ll never be anything, along with the nail in the coffin statement Your black and ugly. my mom said, aunts, and anyone who needed to misdirect their anger on the young and helpless. These people and imprints were my demons. Here I stand up and speak the truth of the ugliness I’ve endured and how Jesus picked me up literally in body, soul, and mind. I found my peace without the medications and long counseling sessions through a daily life with God.

My friend, I know people say it like it’s a piece of cake and that you feel that no one understands that you are dying before their faces, but I want you to know that it is true that what you think cannot be changed, solved, corrected and blessed can be done gracefully and mercifully through Jesus, and even you would not be able to recognize yourself. You can have heaven here on earth. Let us look at what’s wrong, why aren’t we recovering, and removing distractions.

My Courage, My God, through the Mental Fog

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I was trained to be drained. Depression was truly my best friend from the year of understanding and for me that was the age 1 year old. I can spot real depression from a mile away. It hides in their voices, eyes and body language. Even in the elite, the rich, the poor and the famous depression is not hidden from me. I see and carry others pain thus I am always drained.

Still my own depression remains within me but with God through Jesus I have been freed, to the point of understanding, how to protect myself and as I learned in the university, how to reframe my thoughts and up under Jesus Christ I ceased trying to commit suicide and I’m open to the world to see and that is how I honor thy. You are flawed in the world’s eyes, and you are the world in Gods eyes even the angels were not happy that their precious Jesus left the heavens to help us.

We were given this world to protect and yet we neglect. So, in this book we will practice changing our thought process which can arm us with the truth, to find Gods truth. Let us not waste Jesus visit. Let us respect the fact that he came as a human so that we can never say he do not understand what our pain. Yes, he bared our pain and sin even much, so he asked the father for we know not what we do. Thank you Jesus Amen and Amen.

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Lorene Butler was born in Detroit, Michigan. She worked as a Social Security Clerk, County Court Clerk and a City County Clerk for Detroit, Michigan. She worked in Behavioral centers, Juvenile detention centers and Mental Health inpatient hospitals. She herself was also a Patient needing mental health care with depression and suicides attempts. From her depression over a deceased uncle she wrote poems that were later published in the fall 1995/96 National Library of Poetry. Ms. Butler is a divorced mom of three grown adults and a 14-year-old son. She moved to Myrtle Beach, S.C in 2015 after burying her mom and surviving being a murder suspect of her sons’ father among other things, these are the stories of her pain and her deliverance from the Lord of Lord and king of kings. These pages are intended to help those for which the world had thrown away, just as the world threw me away.

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Diamonds

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The subject of diamonds was important for me to start because it deals with change, lies, and the worlds way of putting beliefs within our minds that are not necessarily true. This story deals with the fact that if the world says something is so we not only go with it without question but we internalize it as if it was fact, so we will use diamonds as our opening story in order to open up the heart and mind to change and growth. Rising out of perceived notions and to learn to think for ourselves.

Hmmm, what an odd title. But the title is necessary to reach our point. They say a diamond is unbreakable and this is what the world would have you believe. A diamond is supposed to represent true love. This goes back over hundreds of years. There was and still is a time in our history as well as present day that says if a man