Diagnosed psychopath explains how she makes herself cry on demand and why she does it

A diagnosed psychopath has revealed how she is able to make herself cry and why she would want to make herself cry in the first place.

Content creator Vic Path spreads awareness of antisocial personality disorder (APD) on her TikTok page (@victhepath).

Psychopaths usually have a severe form of APD, which is characterised by impulsive, irresponsible and often criminal behaviour, according to the NHS.

In Britain, eight percent of men and two percent of women in the criminal justice system have high levels of psychopathy, Psychopathy Is' latest stats from 2020 show.

Meanwhile, Vic has insisted that 'psychopaths do have feelings'.

"Our emotions are just different than other people," she said.

"For the most part, they're very muted as compared to a normal person, and there are some emotions that we don't have at all, but overall we do feel things, we do have emotions.

"We can be sad over things, we can feel upset, and the biggest reason that I have cried in my life is over stress."

On why she cries on demand, she explained: "I find that crying really helps me reduce the stress levels in my body.

"So I try to cry when I can tell that I'm stressed out, and what l'll do to induce myself to cry is I'll watch something or I'll read something or l'll hear something that evokes emotion that makes me sad and upset, and if I concentrate on that feeling, I can make myself cry."

Vic said that the 'things that will make me cry are tied to emotions that I already have'.

She continued: "Because I didn't have any love for my grandpa, it didn't make me sad that he was dead, and because I don't have empathy, my family members being sad over his death didn't make me sad.

"So overall I just didn't have a reason to cry. Nothing about his death evoked any emotions within me or played on any emotions that I already had.

"But when I cry over movies, it's typically because I'm crying over something in the movie that evoked an emotion that I already had underlying.

"So for example, one of the things that makes me the saddest in life is the fact that l've never loved anybody, I've never been in love, I don't know if I'll ever be in love, I have a lot of trouble actually connecting with people, and I feel lonely all the time.

"So my favourite movie to cry over is the first 10 minutes of Up because it's such a beautiful love story, and it's something that I wish that I could experience.

"So watching these two people meet as children, fall in love over their life, create a home together, create a business together, grow old together, and specifically when Ellie dies, how sad Carl is, that makes me really really sad, because I wish that I could love somebody that much or that somebody could love me that much and I could feel that love."