Essay On Dorothy's Trauma Syndrome

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Stolen Health & Life: How Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Marauds Its Victims The Golden Girls was an eighties sitcom about four women that shared a home in Miami. The sitcom presented a myriad of topics from homelessness to age discrimination. One of its more poignant episodes was about the diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. This two part episode showed how Dorothy (portrayed by Bea Arthur), struggled to find the cause of an ongoing illness that mimicked flu like symptoms. After visiting a multitude of physicians, she was finally diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Her symptoms were all explained by this unknown disease that wreaked havoc on her life. By dissecting the episode, you see that the diseased prevented her from effectively working daily, performing …show more content…

She went from being an active substitute teacher to a weak person that could barely take care of herself. Thanks to TV magic, within one hour, she was able to be diagnosed and confront the physician that was the main proponent to tell her she was fine, and nothing was wrong with her. In observing that episode, two things can strike you. One, it was great that she was able to maintain a diagnosis and give hope to millions of people that happen across this episode that they may have an explanation for the similar symptoms that Dorothy had. The second is that since the original airing in 1989, the medical community has not publicly address what goes on with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (“Golden”). Light is made of the name and the disease is still dismissed as a catch all diagnosis when there is no scientific explanation for patients’ symptoms (Institute). Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a debilitating disease that renders its victims unable to function. The causes of this disease are unknown, so are the exact ways to treat it. CFS is a disease of many mysteries that physicians

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