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All bulimic subjects reported multiple inner events ongoing simultaneously, a characteristic seldom found, using this method, among nonbulimic subjects. Some bulimics reported that they put thoughts \"on hold\" while they processed others--another unusual characteristic. Additionally, the bulimics exhibited confusion in differentiating thoughts from feelings, thus sometimes thinking their feelings and feeling their thoughts. Characteristics of the bulimic subjects' inner experience support past findings that bulimics are emotionally turbulent, depressed, and somatically preoccupied. Two nonbulimic individuals were also investigated using the same procedure.","abstract_html":"This study investigated the inner experience of five bulimic subjects, ages 18 to 56 years, using the descriptive experience sampling method (Hurlburt, 1990). 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