Original sentence: Although these drugs may have adverse side effects, they have been proven to be effective in treating severe and persistent mental illness.Anecdotal claims by opponents of involuntary medication that involuntary treatment has widespread, devastating, and lasting effects are not supported by these studies.In most studies, the majority of patients retrospectively agreed that involuntary medication had been in their best interest.Involuntary treatment can also include commitment to a psychiatric ward and, in rare circumstances, electroconvulsive therapy.Involuntary treatment is often justified by the severe consequences of lack of treatment, including homelessness, victimization, suicide, violence, and arrests and incarceration.Involuntary treatment is used for individuals, who due to the symptoms of untreated severe mental illness, become either dangerous or in need of treatment and incapable of making rational medical decisions
Edited sentence: According to Torrey, the most vociferous supporter of involuntary treatment in the US, the majority of patients retrospectively agreed that involuntary medication had been in their best interest.Anecdotal claims by opponents of involuntary medication, that involuntary treatment has widespread, devastating, and lasting effects, are not supported by these selected studies.Involuntary treatment can also include commitment to a psychiatric ward and electroconvulsive therapy, also known as electroshock.Involuntary treatment is often justified by the severe consequences of lack of treatment, including homelessness, victimization, suicide, violence, and arrests and incarceration, not including of course the victimization, arrests and incarceration which are done in the name of psychiatric treatment.Involuntary treatment is used for individuals, who due to the symptoms of untreated severe mental illness, become either dangerous or in need of treatment and incapable of making rational medical decisions, as judged by their treating psychiatrist.These drugs have many adverse side effects, including permanently damaging conditions