Original sentence: Advocates for the mentally ill believe it is "stigmatizing" to portray the mentally ill as violent, even when TAC has produced numerous studies that demonstrate the relationship between violence and untreated mental illness.Fuller Torrey and other family members of people with mental illness and people with mental illness, TAC seeks to expedite involuntary treatment for people with serious mental illness who need treatment but are unable or unwilling to give consent.Psychiatric drugs can have negative side effects and many patients refuse to take them
Edited sentence: Advocates for the mentally ill point out that it is stigmatizing to portray the mentally ill as violent, especially when TAC uses falsified figures (for instance, TAC's claim that the severely mentally ill commit 1,000 murders per year is fiction) to attempt to demonstrate a relationship between violence and untreated mental illness.Despite crime being quite common across the continent, if someone with a psychiatric label is accused of a crime, TAC's assumption is that it could only have happened because of that person's alleged mental illness.Fuller Torrey and other family members of people with mental illness and people with mental illness, TAC seeks to expedite involuntary treatment for people with serious mental illness who choose not to be treated with psychiatric drugs.Psychiatric drugs (particularly neuroleptics, the standard treatment for schizophrenia) are disabling in the short term and often damaging in the long term (e.Such circular diagnosis concerns many advocates.TAC also presumes that anybody who refuses treatment has "proved" that they lack insight into their illness.TAC presumes that all or most people with severe mental illness will become violent without treatment and this is untrue.tardive dyskinesia, neuromalignant syndrome) and many patients refuse to take them