Just like fireworks in my brain - a Swedish interview study on experiences of emotions in female patients with eating disorders.

Background: Patients with eating disorders have reported poorer emotional awareness, more emotional suppression, less use of adaptive emotional regulation strategies, and more use of maladaptive emotional regulation strategies compared to people in healthy control groups.

Aim: To explore experiences of emotions by a transdiagnostic sample of patients with eating disorders.

Method: Nine patients with different eating disorder diagnoses at an eating disorder outpatient clinic in Sweden were interviewed for their thoughts on emotions.