A woman who says she is a diagnosed psychopath explained some of the standard emotions which she doesn't feel.
She's previously talked about some of the morbid interests she had as a kid
and on TikTok goes by the name of @victhepath.
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Explaining that she has been diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and is hoping to raise awareness of it, she's made a whole load of videos explaining the world from her perspective.
Vic did say that she calls herself a psychopath even though you can't get a formal diagnosis for that as she identifies 'much more with the traits of a psychopath than I do with the traits of a sociopath'.
One of her more popular videos had her running through some of the emotions she didn't feel which most of us would.
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Starting off by stressing that there were plenty of emotions she did feel, even if they were 'muted', she then went on to talk about the ones she didn't feel.
"When I think about these emotions I feel like my brain is going through a blender, like I can't conceptualise it," she explained.
"It's like telling you to think of a colour that doesn't exist, it's impossible because you've never experienced that colour so you don't know how to reference it.
"Some emotions that I don't feel at all are emotional empathy, love, regret and anxiety."
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She then told her followers she had 'a complete misconception of what empathy is' as she'd not experienced it.
The TikToker added that she didn't feel love for anyone, 'not my friends, not my family, not my boyfriends' and said that 'the concept of love is so foreign to me' that she just didn't understand it.
Regret was an emotion she said she understood more as she could get what someone meant when they were talking about regrets, but 'I just don't feel it'.
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She felt that dovetailed with a lack of anxiety, saying: "I feel like regret and anxiety happen together, and anxiety again it doesn't make sense to me when people talk about it.
"I think I can understand what people mean when they say 'oh my thoughts are working against me' or 'I'm scared to do this thing', but I've never actually experienced that.
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"So I'm not really sure if my concept of it is correct or not."
Naturally, this video made many of her followers even more curious, as people asked why she would seek out romantic partners if she didn't feel love.
In another video, she said the question confused her as she thought it was 'obvious you can still enjoy something without being in love with it'.
Saying that relationships between pretty much anyone 'starts off with two people enjoying each other then it grows into love', she said that if you 'just take the last step of falling in love with each other out of the equation' a relationship would otherwise work 'exactly the same'.
Topics: Health, Mental Health, TikTok