Co-morbid disorders with your partner's BPD

[How to communicate after a contentious divorce...]

I think my husband has some co-morbid disorders occurring with BPD. BPD would be the main disorder and the one which presents the strongest but I also think he fits diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Histrionic Personality Disorder, evidencing at least 7 for NPD and 5 for HPD (he fits all 9 for BPD). There is some degree of "overlapping" with PD of course. They say there is no such thing as "pure" BPD and I thought it might be interesting to see what other disorders can be involved. I'd like to be able to note all the differences these co-morbidities make in behavior of people with BPD but there is not enough room to write all that. Lol. 

What about your significant others?

[Sin_M]

I think my husband has some co-morbid disorders occurring with BPD. BPD would be the main disorder and the one which presents the strongest but I also think he fits diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Histrionic Personality Disorder, evidencing at least 7 for NPD and 5 for HPD (he fits all 9 for BPD). There is some degree of "overlapping" with PD of course. They say there is no such thing as "pure" BPD and I thought it might be interesting to see what other disorders can be involved. I'd like to be able to note all the differences these co-morbidities make in behavior of people with BPD but there is not enough room to write all that. Lol. 

What about your significant others?

[bruceli]

I think my husband has some co-morbid disorders occurring with BPD. BPD would be the main disorder and the one which presents the strongest but I also think he fits diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Histrionic Personality Disorder, evidencing at least 7 for NPD and 5 for HPD (he fits all 9 for BPD). There is some degree of "overlapping" with PD of course. They say there is no such thing as "pure" BPD and I thought it might be interesting to see what other disorders can be involved. I'd like to be able to note all the differences these co-morbidities make in behavior of people with BPD but there is not enough room to write all that. Lol. 

What about your significant others?

The above mentioned are all in a cluster called B.  Look up cluster B pd's

[Sin_M]

Yes, I know. He fits most of them but these in particular. The only one he doesn't really fit is APD.

[bruceli]

I think my husband has some co-morbid disorders occurring with BPD. BPD would be the main disorder and the one which presents the strongest but I also think he fits diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Histrionic Personality Disorder, evidencing at least 7 for NPD and 5 for HPD (he fits all 9 for BPD). There is some degree of "overlapping" with PD of course. They say there is no such thing as "pure" BPD and I thought it might be interesting to see what other disorders can be involved. I'd like to be able to note all the differences these co-morbidities make in behavior of people with BPD but there is not enough room to write all that. Lol. 

What about your significant others?

PDw is a pretty well balanced Cluster B and is co-morbid with alcohol abuse.

[motherof1yearold]

Great post!

For mine , he is definitely BPD, a malignant narcissist, and a sadistic psychopath (ASPD)

The combination is terrible.

[Bananas]

My ex is undiagnosed with a PD.  But I believe he is mostly NPD with BPD and ASPD. 

He told me he was diagnosed with anxiety and depression and takes medication for those. 

Also a terrible combination.   

[SweetCharlotte]

My husband has undiagnosed BPD (I can match him to 6 or 7 of the 9 traits) along with some traits of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In fact, he has had a few healthy stretches that made me think that he had PTSD alone and not BPD. Then the latent BPD traits always resurface when he is under stress (and anything can stress him out, including too much peaceful togetherness with the wife).

I'm sure he has a mood disorder as well; probably bipolar (which I have to some degree). He goes from really deep depression to elated with lots of excited talking and free association. We would joke (back when I was still speaking to him), saying, "What were we talking about, anyway?" because his free flow of ideas could be so torrential.