Diagnosed Psychopath Shares Five Signs To Spot If Someone In Your Life Is One

A self-diagnosed psychopath has opened up about the five biggest signs that could help you figure out if someone you know might also be one.

Vic Path, a content creator on TikTok, has been using her platform to raise awareness about antisocial personality disorder (APD) for quite some time. In her videos, she offers advice on how to spot these traits in those around you, giving her viewers valuable insight into what could be happening right under their noses.

Vic regularly shares her thoughts on what it's like inside the mind of a psychopath, and this time, she's helping people recognize if they might be dealing with one in their own lives.

According to the National Library of Medicine, psychopathy is defined as "a neuropsychiatric disorder marked by deficient emotional responses, lack of empathy, and poor behavioral controls, commonly resulting in persistent antisocial deviance and criminal behavior."

The Psychiatric Times also notes that 1.2 percent of men and between 0.3 and 0.7 percent of women in the US exhibit clinical psychopathic traits.

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It's also reported that around 15 to 25 percent of prisoners show these characteristics.

In her latest video, Vic is sharing five clear signs to help you figure out if someone in your life might not have your best interests at heart.

They are charming

Vic explains: "Psychopaths are extremely manipulative people, so if there's a psychopath in your life, you're probably being manipulated in some way. The first way to spot a psychopath is if you know somebody that's extremely charming, especially when they first meet somebody. 

"If the first time you met them, you thought that they were the coolest person in the world, and you notice that every time they meet new people, new people seem to love them, but then over time, they kind of just seem normal to you, that could be a sign that they're a psychopath."

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They are manipulative

The second sign to look out for is if you have a friend who always seems to have good things happen to them, no matter what.

"This is because psychopaths are always manipulating everything around them to their benefit," Vic says.

"They're always getting what they want in one way or another, and sometimes you may not even see how they have a hand in what good things happen to them but they always do have a hand in it."

They have a cycle of friends

The third major red flag is if this person frequently cycles through different groups of friends and never keeps long-lasting friendships.

Vic elaborates: "If they always seem to be cycling through new people and they don't have any friendships from their childhood, then that's a very big red flag. Like I explained before, psychopaths have trouble maintaining long-term relationships because their charm tends to drop off over time, and especially because people tend to lose value to a psychopath over time, so they tend to drop people more."

They could be ‘promiscuous’

Another thing to watch out for is if they move from relationship to relationship without forming lasting connections.

Vic explains: "Psychopaths get bored easily, so they like to fill their time with people, but psychopaths can't generate a true connection with the people that they're romantically linked to, so they tend to go from person to person very quickly,"

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They are shrouded in mystery

Lastly, they may know a lot about you, but you seem to know very little about them. This could be a big clue.

Vic shares that it's because "psychopaths like to collect information about the people around them, but they don't like to give out information about themselves because they understand how other people can manipulate them based on what kind of information they have."

She also adds: "So a psychopath will be very secretive about their life or they'll lie a lot about their life. But they'll know everything about you and they'll be able to solve all of your problems."

Pretty unsettling, don't you think?