Her Worst Nightmare
Once Melissa Holliday had, in effect, been driven out of her mind through chemical bombardment, Fredrick attempted to talk her into receiving psychiatric electric shock. “After I got there, the doctor mentioned shock,” Holliday said. “She didn’t ask me if I wanted it. She said if I didn’t want it, I’d go to the fourth floor, a lock-up ward.”
Alexander Lampone noted that it would be difficult to have devised “a more drastic alternative short of lobotomy.”
When Holliday informed the doctors that she didn’t want electric shock, she was told that if she didn’t consent, she would simply be locked up and not permitted to leave.
According to Holliday, her mother had received shock years before. “When my mother came out of electro-shock therapy,” she said, “she was never the same again” — a common experience for those who have endured the brain-damaging “treatment.” (See “Annihilation Therapy.”)
Those to whom Melissa Holliday had turned for help created her worst nightmare on June 26, 1995. Robbed of her dignity and self-determination, the young actress was strapped to a table, anesthetized and paralyzed. Electrodes were fastened to her scalp and high-voltage shocks repeatedly ripped through delicate brain tissue, causing convulsions and brain damage, as well as pain, shock and trauma, according to her lawsuit.
Over ensuing days, nine shock treatments were administered to Melissa Holliday by psychiatrist Timothy Hayes, according to the suit, and she fought against each one. The legal papers tell of attempts to escape through the hospital’s elevator system, and of fighting against attendants who came to bring her for “treatments” — even biting one in her frantic efforts to stop the torture.
Finally, at the end of 44 days, Francis, Fredrick, Hayes and St. John’s had drained approximately $45,000 from Melissa Holliday’s medical insurance policy. As she had run out of coverage, an exhausted and ruined Melissa Holliday was released from the hospital.
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