However, behind the beautiful fa? ade, the anorexic's secret mental world is in disarray: they are usually not close to their families, having a dysfunctional relationship with their parents. In particular, the father is often missing, or in emotional terms is a distant and detached bystander.
但在亮麗的外表下，隱藏在患者內心的世界卻是失衡的：她們往往與家人不親密、親子關係不平衡，尤其父親常是缺席者，或是在情緒上介入極少的旁觀者。