Emotion dysregulation in Borderline Personality Disorder can lead to behavior dysregulation including impulsivity in substance use, spending, sexual behavior, driving, and eating.

“and then these other domains of dysregulation stem from emotion dysregulation and include behavior dysregulation so not having control over or feeling like you don't have control over your behaviors this is associated with a lot of impulsivity and behaviors that go along with impulsivity so substance use reckless spending impulsive sexual behavior impulsive driving you know behaviors that are experienced as impulsive and potentially could cause problems for the person impulsive eating”