Subtle techniques diagnosed 'sadistic' sociopath uses to control anyone she meets

An Australian woman who was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) has explained just how she gets people to do her bidding.

If you've never encountered someone with ASPD, you might not understand what really goes on inside their brains. As a mental health condition, it comes with varying degrees of severity, but the signs are typically similar across the board.

Diagnosed with ASPD and narcissistic personality disorder at 21, Kanika Batra says she was ‘born’ a sociopath and has explained how she manipulates, as well as what goes on ‘behind the mask’.

Speaking on LADbible's Minutes With, Kanika revealed the cause of her feeling the need to really ‘control’ those around her, describing it as an inherent need she's always felt.

Kanika Batra is a diagnosed sociopath (LADbible Stories)

'If I can build them up, I can also break them down'

Even though experts can't be certain about the cause of the condition, many believe it's down to a combination of genetics and environmental influences during a child's formative years.

Kanika said: "I think it's to have control, and I think there was a bit of sadism in me. I don't know why. I kind of really enjoyed watching people squirm and watching them try to climb their way back after I would ruin their reputation."

Calling herself ‘omnipotent’, Kanika revealed that when she was in control, she was ‘so powerful that I could make these people crumble’, adding of the experience: "So, if I can build them up, I can also break them down."

To do this, she explained that she'd deploy a series of subtle tactics which would leave people even questioning their own memories.

Kanika noted: "I can mimic the same emotions. I can do all of that."

Calling it her ‘mask’, she described it as ‘something that we [sociopaths] put on to be acceptable to society’.

Kanika went on to say: "It is being charming. It's being funny. It's being very relatable to people. It's hiding any traits of envy, jealousy, rage, contempt. It's a very strong emotion that we feel, and that is rage and contempt. And that is very, very hard to actually suppress on a daily basis."

She explained that when she wears it, she is showing a person ‘a form of a person that we know is societally successful’, adding: "We know these particular features are going to make you like us."

For Kanika, she says she likes to be ‘charismatic’ and to ‘actually get to know people’ so she can ‘use their names’ and ‘try to get very familiar with them so that they think that I'm more invested in them than I actually am, because the real truth is I'm not very invested in anyone except myself’.

Behind the 'mask'

Kanika called herself 'omnipotent' (LADbible Stories)

Speaking about what's ‘behind the mask’, Kanika revealed: "There's a lot of rage, there's a lot of contempt, there's a lot of, ‘Why is this person standing in my way?’ There's a lot of violent thoughts, there's violent ideation, and there are feelings of not abandonment, but of any kind of rejection. We cannot handle that emotion.

"Rejection is something that we respond viscerally to, and I believe that is from the narcissistic side of things. So, the problem is these traits are quite repugnant. So, I don't blame people to not want to be with us during those moments."

Going on to reveal more about the inner workings of a sociopath, Kanika explained: "So, the typical characteristics are, well, one, we're very charismatic people. You will never realise you're dating or dealing with a sociopath or a psychopath because we are very, very well-versed on being appropriate and being seen in the correct light and behaving correctly, if you will.

Watch Kanika's full Minutes With episode below:

"Optics is our strongest game. So, what we tend to do is also we don't have empathy, so we know what you're thinking. We know how you're feeling.

"We just don't really care, but we'll pretend to care because we know that makes you happy, and that makes you able to want to be our friend and do things for us."

She also claimed that people like her are ‘very, very callous’ with an ‘ability to pathologically lie and manipulate people for absolutely no reason out of just either enjoying it or they get some minor perk from it’.

Obviously, people with ASPD are different from one another, but for Kanika, this is what she says she enjoyed doing as a diagnosed person.

However, now that she has gotten older, she revealed she wishes those she harmed ‘well’, noting she hopes there wasn't any permanent impact left upon them due to her actions.