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{{NeedsImage}} '''Susan Harris''' is an American television comedy writer and producer, who created numerous successful American TV comedy shows, including ''Fay'', ''Soap'', ''Benson'', ''It Takes Two'', ''Empty Nest'', ''Nurses'', ''Good & Evil'', ''The Golden Palace'', and ''The Secret Lives of Men''. Her longest running and most awarded show was ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' which aired from 1985 to 1992.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365358/ | title = Susan Harris|website=IMDb|access-date=2021-12-06}}</ref> She was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/susan-harris | title = Susan Harris | last = | first = | authorlink = | date = |website=Emmys - Television Academy|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-12-06}}</ref> She lives with [[chronic fatigue syndrome]].<ref name="out" /> ==Chronic fatigue syndrome == She lives with [[chronic fatigue syndrome]] (CFS) and worked the topic of the illness into [[The Golden Girls]] by having Bea Arthur's character, Dorothy Zbornak, diagnosed with it.<ref name="episode" /> In a 2010 magazine interview, Harris talked about still having [[chronic fatigue syndrome]]: "It's something that some people get over and others don't. I'm better now than I was -- much better than I was. For example, I used to be a runner, but I had to stop. Now I'm a walker. It's that kind of difference... Now, I didn't stay with the [[The Golden Girls]] show. I was in and out for three years. After my experience with ''Soap'' it was too exhausting, and I just couldn't put myself through that again. Then I had a baby to raise."<ref name="out">{{Cite web | last = Fitzharris | first = D | date = Oct 2010| title = Catching Up With The Golden Girls' Susan Harris|publisher =Out Magazine|access-date=2021-12-06 | url = http://www.out.com/entertainment/television/2010/10/03/catching-golden-girls-susan-harris}}</ref> ==Golden Girls CFS episode == {{video|id=963WCmb2_h4 | website = youtube|description=Dorothy confronts Doctor Budd - Golden Girls: Sick and Tired}} Susan Harris wrote the '''Sick and Tired''', a two-part episode of The Golden Girls, which may have been the first representation of [[chronic fatigue syndrome]] on popular TV when it aired in 1989.<ref name="episode">{{Citation | last = Hughes | first = Terry | title = Sick and Tired: Part 2 | date =1989-09-30|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0589813/|series=The Golden Girls|access-date=2021-12-06}}</ref> In ''Sick and Tired'', Dorothy travels from doctor to doctor to find out what was wrong with her, while continually being dismissed, ignored and made to feel as though she [[Psychologization|needs a psychiatrist instead of a physician]]. One doctor tells her she is just getting old and that maybe she should color her hair.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://michaelcavacini.com/2012/07/15/how-the-golden-girls-broke-new-ground/ | title = How The Golden Girls Broke New Ground | date = 2012-07-15 | website = Michael Cavacini|language=en|access-date=2021-12-06}}</ref> After being diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, Dorothy confronts her doctor about his dismissive and unhelpful attitude to her. ==Talks and interviews== *2010, [http://www.out.com/entertainment/television/2010/10/03/catching-golden-girls-susan-harris Catching Up With The Golden Girls' Susan Harris] ==Online presence== *Twitter *Facebook *Website/Blog *YouTube ==Learn more== *[https://www.emmys.com/bios/susan-harris Susan Harris Bio] - Emmy's *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Harris Wikipedia - Susan Harris] ==See also== *[[Arts]] *[[The Golden Girls]] ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:TV]] [[Category:ME and CFS in popular culture]] [[Category:People with ME, CFS, and/or FMS]] [[Category:Famous people with ME, CFS, and/or FMS]] [[Category:American famous people with ME, CFS, and/or FMS]]
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