Rusty's Story

"Why do they keep locking me up?" Rusty's Story is Carol Gino's account of the extraordinary life of the woman she undertook to help - the woman who ended up teaching her an invaluable lesson about the will to live, the strength of hope. Rusty used to wonder if she would make it through the day, seeing danger in everyday living. Rusty had was epilepsy, and because the Doctors were unable to see that, she was locked up at the age of fifteen and prevented from living a reasonably normal life. Rusty was twenty when Carol Gino met her and learned of her past ordeals: the stigma of mental illness, the drugs that took away her self-control, the treatments that only worsened her symptoms. Carol and Rusty set out to prove that illness can be overcome, and that there is no substitute for love and care.