Are all borderline personalities promiscuous?

Question

I live with a borderline peson and I can't accept she might be promiscuous? I wonder?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, many of them are. Its actually part of the diagnostic criteria. BPD is the hardest personality disorder to treat, a big reason why is the impulsivity.

A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.

2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.

3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.

4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating).

5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior.

6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria - an emotional state characterized by anxiety, depression, or unease; irritability, or anxiety, usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days).

7. Chronic feelings of emptiness.

8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).

9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms (multiple personalities).

Answer 2

No

Borderlines are not always promiscuous but many may have abnormalities of where we would place our ego boundaries.

Typically bipolar and some types of schizophrenic illnesses can be associated with promiscuity.

You would have to see what sort of behaviour she exhibits.