Do You Know A Psychic Energy Vampire?
An Energy Vampire is an acquaintance or friend (or anyone) who either deliberately or unwittingly drains us of energy, emotion or vitality, thus leaving us exhausted. It can happen in our homes, in our workplaces, or even just chatting with a neighbour. If you know of anyone who you tend to avoid because they are just more trouble than they are worth, they may just be an energy vampire. Is an Energy Vampire Real? Yes, they absolutely do exist. It is a kind of psychic phenomenon that involves actual 'energy cording' from one person to another, and that is why they are often referred to as Psychic Vampires. Below we will define an energy vampire.
Spotting And Identifying An Energy Vampire
They are easy to spot once you can recognise the signs. These signs include:
someone who talks a lot but does not listen
someone who dominates at all times
they can belittle the other's point of view
they are all important, more so than anyone else
they never reciprocate an act of kindness
ask for favors, time and don't mind who is inconvenienced
the attention must always be on them
drama queen, creates mountains out of mole hills
always sense disinterest and try to win back people
pretend to be oblivious of anyone else's problems
only 'give' if afraid of losing the person
Knowing An Energy Vampire
The way such a relationship begins is the vampire will zone in on a person who is often quite giving in nature and, ideally, sympathetic and/or empathic towards the vampire. The way a vampire works is they must first establish a kind of bond or friendship before they can engage in energy draining of another.
The way they find their pray is through talking to people and simply mentioning whatever problem is bothering them and waiting for the reaction. If someone shows a passing interest or sympathy in those problems, the energy vampire then seeks to form an instant bond of 'friendship'. Note: these are usually not real bonds built out of reciprocated friendship or any longstanding association - rather they are quick, fly-by-night friendships that are asserted, usually to the surprise of the unsuspecting victim. Most if not all of these friendships are characterised by inappropriate complimenting and by the repeated assertions that you are now friends. In fact these compliments can be so profuse it can momentarily stun a person into believing they are genuine. The compliments however are designed to fool the sympathy giver into believing that a real friendship has formed, allowing 'give and take' to happen in equal proportions, i.e. I compliment you and then you let me drain you.
The vampire then proceeds to stalk their pray with lists of issues and problems that need to be listened to (often daily) whilst empathy is sought. The vampire will never wish to discuss the other person's issues or reciprocate in any way other than a superficial two minute version of giving back - once again this is to convince the giver that the friendship is on equal footing.
How An Energy Vampire Feeds A vampire can mercilessly present issue after issue to burden their acquaintance until they have received enough kindness, consideration, empathy and energy from the kindhearted soul they are draining. Here are a list of common examples to demonstrate:
Example 1: "Why don't I just drop over for a cuppa tomorrow and we can have a nice chat? I have missed you so much and I love spending time with you, you are so smart."
In example 1 we have an invitation to meet in person. This sounds like such a lovely idea until the vampire drains the caring friend of kindness and advice, leaving them feeling confused and slightly angry at the intrusion, and exhausted by all the love forced out of them.
Example 2 is a phone conversation, which in theory seems nice. Usually a vampire will not mind interrupting anyone or taking precious time away from a giving friend who can little afford to lose it. A vampire may say, "I was just thinking of you and wondering if you are okay. How's it all going." Their friend speaks for a minute, glad to catch up and get a little bit of the stress off their mind. In return, a vampire can speak for 1-2 hours, slowly draining their friend of all they have. They slam the phone down feeling angry and hard done by but, after all, isn't this what friends do?
Example 3 is the emails that begin to come more frequently than any acquaintance can cope with. They receive daily email digests several pages long of every issue an energy drainer has, with the expectation of a prompt reply to discuss, encourage, care or help make them feel better. This is a seven day a week roster of emails, public holidays and Christmas included. This has happened to myself and others simply from giving an acquaintance an email address.
Pranic Drainage Energy Feeding Whilst we are being drained of valuable time and emotional energy we need for ourself, we are also being drained of pranic energy/life force energy (Chi or Qi). The vampire actually connects an etheric cord/energy cord between us and them, one that we may not be able to see, although we can see or feel it 'psychically'. Each time they drain someone with their issues, they go away feeling light as a feather and refreshed whilst the other feels used, irritable, tired, drained or actually mad.
Pranic Drainage can also happen as we sleep. Once someone has this cord hooked into our solar plexus chakra, they can drain away vital force energy as long as we allow it and are 'open' to them. In this case it is recommended to do a quick Cord Cutting as per my article here in order to sever any unwanted etheric cords.
Stopping An Energy Vampire
Sometimes an energy drainer can be hard core in the way they seek to stalk another for their advice or sympathy, wanting nothing less than all we have to give. We have to shake them properly unless we want them intruding on us constantly with a relationship we never truly agreed to. Unless we approach them in the exact right way, they can make tenacious stalkers or even begin to use bullying tactics or guilt to keep the sympathy flowing.
It is actually a kindness to let them know in an unmistakable way that we are moving on. This can help them to detach those etheric tentacles and find someone else. From experience I have found that ignoring an energy vampire can encourage them, for with silence we can be unwittingly consenting to what has been going on. I have found that with any unwanted attention, the best way to loosen someone's grasp is to confront and be blunt, and never sugar coat the message or apologise.
When we say no to an invitation extended by them, we do not need to provide a reason or explanation. One word is enough - No. If they wish to know why we are ending the unhealthy relationship, they may wish to use the reason to argue or convince us otherwise. We do not have to explain our reasons (especially if we barely know them) or let them tell us that our feelings are wrong. I just leave at this stage and smile because they now have gotten the picture that I want those energy feeders out of my life.
Unfortunately for energy drainers, they need our sympathy in order to drain us and once they see that sympathy is gone, they move on quickly to find new targets, leaving us feeling free.
I've had many experiences with energy vampires and stalkers over the years, all of whom I barely knew. At first I thought I was supposed to learn a spiritual lesson from them, but after so many years of this I have come to realise the reason why it happens is because energy vampires are everywhere and they are voracious. Once we learn the trick to not apologise or feel guilty for standing up for ourself, losing a vampire becomes a simple process and they find they are unable to cord or extract the energy or time they wish so dearly to take.
The co-article to this is Dating An Energy Vampire which is about male oriented attacks.
http://askingangels.com/psychic/energy-vampire.php
Dating A Romantic Energy Vampire
The term Romantic Energy Vampire could easily describe many partners we have all had over time. I have written before about the more harmless variety of energy vampire here, and that article describes the vamps use of a person's precious time, energy and sympathy. The Romantic energy vampire is a different kettle of fish and is more dangerous and difficult to dislodge. Please read this article if you recognise you may be an unwitting victim to this vampire.
Who Are The Romantic Energy-Vamps?
"Romantic Energy Vamp" is a term I have coined after my own experiences with these types of people. They are typically men and it will soon become obvious why this is so. It is interesting that the more common energy vampires are women whilst the romantic energy vamps are men. This reflects the difference in the sexes when it comes to "feeding" off another's energy. Women will typically do this exclusively through conversation and attempting to elicit endless sympathy or aid, whilst men will typically do this exclusively through the physical relationship, which will involve Power over their victim in a sexual context and in all aspects of their life.
In both forms of energy vampirism, women are the usual victims. Women pray on other women through false friendships, and men pray on women through false physical love. This probably isn't surprising since the female gender is a giving and nurturing gender. This giving is quite simply being taken advantage of by both sexes through stealth, manipulation and through victims unwittingly giving their "consent" to have their energy drained. I say consent is given because the victim must allow another to drain their energy in order for it to occur. This is the "back door" if you like, this consent that allows the vamp to gain entry into the life of a giving person.
The Signs Of Loving An Energy Vampire At the beginning of a relationship, the signs are few and far between, but importantly they are there. In my experience, these men are always extremely charming and almost too good to be true. A woman will ask herself why such a charming man is so interested, but she may not question it for long because the energy vamp will overwhelm her with signs of love, and will be equipped to woe a woman powerfully. These men, in my experience, are quite informed and adept at intimate relations.
Some of them are so adept at intimate relations that they use strategies beyond what may be innocent or normal sexual attraction - it is much more pronounced than this. If you have had a kind of intimate "magic" performed on you, you will know the difference. A master at this will use certain (solar plexus chakra) energy on you to attract, charm and subdue, almost like a form of hypnotism. Remember that a man that truly loves you will never hypnotize or you. You may call it dishonest, or you may call it love, at first. Most romantic vamps are adept at the art of intimate relations. This is also the TRAP component of the romantic vamp, and it doesn't help at all if he is good looking and powerful, and the female is lonely or vulnerable.
A warning: often these types of energy vamps marry their victims. I am speaking of a long range Plan of energy vampirism (pre-planned), and being married to one of these men involves them having total power over another and tying that person to them for life, if they can survive that long.
The actual vampirism that goes on in such relationships will be known to most of us. The romantic vamp actually feeds off their victim by causing pain and then enjoying the result of that pain. They suffer from a kind of common delusion where they see the relationship as a "competition" and by causing pain, they view themselves as the victors and as "winning". This makes very little sense to the victim, and it can take them long years to realise the pain caused to them has been a show of power and a way to claim victory in the GAME. This is because the woman has unwittingly fallen in love and is searching for love being returned. The vamp is deceptively playing another game altogether, as we shall see.
How Does The Game Begin? It begins normally enough, in fact many vamps can seem extremely loving, unusually sexy, very intelligent, but also perhaps separate from you in some way. Vamps will be emotionally or intellectually separate. They will see their Self as above their lady victim, above them in worldly power and as the controller in the relationship. They will look down on their lady, act intellectually superior, and the woman has to ask herself at this point, why aren't I an equal? Major warning sign! The victim may even consent to this treatment. By accepting certain treatment silently, we actually consent to it, please never ever do this. We are all equal, and your charming vamp may just turn out to be beneath you and someone you would rather leave behind.
A big weapon in the romantic vamp's arsenal is emotional turmoil and confusion. They can literally spell a person into believing they are loved whilst they daily torment them in seemingly small emotional ways. This torment, whilst it seems trivial at first, will chip away at the female's confidence. Vamps show two sides simultaneously - a loving and seemingly loyal side, and a wicked and cruel side that seems to just peek out at first. They have so many tricks in their books that I could not list all of them. Causing guilt, shame, embarrassment, feelings of inadequacy - the list is actually endless.
Each energy vamp has their own tricks when it comes to causing emotional pain, suffering and keeping their victims unbalanced, unable to catch their breath, and confused, overwhelmed or stunned. They learn what the woman's triggers are,and endlessly search for new emotional triggers to use, whilst overwhelming their target with constant messages of pain. They can make the victim feel like they are going insane, or imagining everything - this is a quite deliberate and useful strategy. It would be useful to read the novel "Fifty Shades Of Grey" to experience a made-up character (Christian Grey) who is adept at intimacy, hypnotism, sadism, and fooling an inexperienced woman into believing this is love, all the while his control is constant and never wavering. Unlike this romantic storybook, bringing such a character back into the light is nearly impossible. You must ask yourself if you intend to try this or is it really worth it?
When you meet someone who is capable of systematically destroying another's soul over the long term with mere words, you know that you are dealing with a destructive energy vamp who has spent lifetimes reincarnating and honing his skills at quietly and effortlessly destroying a loving soul from the inside of their very defenses. They may feed off all of this power too.
When A Romantic Energy-Vamp Cannot Break You
Vampirism always escalatesover time, never diminishes! The hardcore vamp always gets more and more hungry and is never sated. Your pain may be so sweet to them, and you give it voluntarily never realising you are a player in THEIR game. You are innocent and it never occurred to you such a game could and does exist. It is time to get out.
Predictably, the romantic energy vamp gets angry when they are hungry for the woman's submission. If they cannot easily pain her, or feed when it is convenient to them, they begin to see her as too strong and determine to weaken her even further with violence, which simply escalates to more violence until she is dead. If she tries to leave, they may not let her go and may seek the harshest of revenge until they have WON. Remember, this game of power is about who is the "victor" and in their minds this is their reality. This explains the incomprehensible acts of violence in marriages and relationships. What the victim has to eventually and painfully process is that the love shown to them was probably a deceit, a carrot dangled, or a lure to catch the fish. There was never any real love on the offing, just the chance to snare a willing participant in the game of power.
Some men, who become enraged at losing their victim when she leaves, may even "off" his and her children so as to win at any cost. It is the ultimate betrayal we know of.
The reason this is becoming more common could be because this type of mental illness is not recognised in our world. Some people are seen as sane and not as the dangerous, delusional trap-setters they really are. Some vamps are devious enough to take out life insurance before doing the deed. They will suck a woman dry of her self esteem and cause constant emotional pain, then do the ultimate evil by taking that life away.
They always finish what they have started, they will not let the female escape or let her win. The good news is that astute females can see the signs and understand what drives their constant need to inflict pain. Then we may cut them off by withdrawing our consent and moving on from them. As women, we have the right to live our life without energy-suckers attaching to us and deceiving us that they mean well. We do not deserve their punishment, revenge, anger or hatred. Let's be wary of them and repel them at every chance. Do not be drained of your life force, or your very life, because it conveniences someone else. Thank you for reading.
http://askingangels.com/psychic/romantic-vampire.php
Personally, my take on this is from the Akashic records, with the soul realignment modality, there can/are *negative souls* and they are not connected to the divine blueprint and therefore are not receiving 'source energy' so the NEED to be around people to syphon off some of there's. They are never alone, and almost have an entourage of people around them, they may not even be consciously aware of what they are doing. But without Divine source energy they would not even exist, so they need to get this from somewhere.
Now positive souls are just as capable of being an energy vampire as negative souls, there are always exchanges, back and forth, but this eneryg drain is in my opinion more likely a negative soul. I do think its' possible with correct thoughts, intentions to Re connect to their divine soul blueprint and receive energy again for Source, but as we all have Free Will, a lot can depend on how many lifetimes they chose to reincarnate as a 'negative soul' the long it goes on (lifeteimes) the harder it will be to change kind of thing
How to Recognize and Respond to Energy vampires at Home, Work, and More
What is an energy vampire?
Energy vampires are people who — sometimes intentionally — drain your emotional energy. They feed on your willingness to listen and care for them, leaving you exhausted and overwhelmed.
Energy vampires can be anywhere and anyone. They can be your spouse or your best friend. They can be your cubicle mate or your neighbor.
Learning how to identify and respond to this toxic behavior can help you preserve your energy and protect yourself from a great deal of emotional — and physical — distress.
Read on to learn more about how an energy vampire acts and what you can do next.
They don’t take accountability
Energy vampires are often charismatic. They may slink out of trouble when problems arise because of this charm.
They’re crafty and may pin problems on someone else in almost every situation.
They never accept culpability for their role in any disagreement or issue. You’re often left holding the guilt — and possibly the blame.
For example:
“I can’t believe no one could get this right. What an embarrassment!”
“I just sat there. He kept getting angry at me, and I still don’t know what I did.”
They’re always involved in some kind of drama
Energy vampires always find themselves in the middle of a catastrophe, flailing from target to target with their emotional and dramatic behavior.
When they’ve landed on you, they fling this drama onto you in hopes you’ll absorb it, fix it, and right their ship.
For example:
“Why am I always the one everyone gets mad at? I don’t deserve this.”
“I just can’t take this anymore. I didn’t do anything to Ellen, but she’s stopped talking to me. Why can’t everyone be as kind as you?”
They always one-up you
An energy vampire never likes to be outdone, and they aren’t keen to share the spotlight. This is one of their many narcissistic tendencies.
They struggle to feel genuine happiness for another person. Instead, they prefer to pull energy to feed their emotional demands.
For example:
“That’s really good news. I actually applied for a new job today, too, and I really need some help with my resume. Do you mind looking it over?”
“So proud of you! Only three more certifications to go to catch up with me!”
They diminish your problems and play up their own
Energy vampires feed off your emotional energy. And if you’re sad or upset, your energy supplies are dwindling.
To drain the most energy from you, energy vampires will shift the attention of the discussion to themselves, turning your dismay into their emotional buffet.
For example:
“I know your job doesn’t pay well, but at least your job is fun. You have to help me find a new one.”
“You’re super swamped at work, and I get it, but I really, really need to talk to you tonight about this issue with Mark.”
They act like a martyr
Energy vampires place their problems squarely on the shoulders of other people. They take no responsibility for their contributions to their difficulties.
What they’re seeking is emotional support to boost their self-esteem.
For example:
“He’s always so unreasonable. I do the best I can, but it’s just never enough.”
“This day started off bad and it only got worse.”
They use your good nature against you
People who are sensitive and compassionate are prime targets for energy vampires. You offer a listening ear, a kind heart, and endless energy.
In that way, energy vampires use your very nature against you, draining you of your vitality.
For example:
They monopolize your time at every social occasion so they can have as much of your energy as they can get.
They know you’ll feel guilty turning them down for coffee or a dinner date, so they ask regularly.
They use guilt trips or ultimatums
Energy vampires often rely on guilt trips to get what they want. They know shame is a great weapon against people who are compassionate and caring.
Likewise, ultimatums are an effective way to capture a person’s attention and coerce them into doing something they otherwise may not want to do.
For example:
“I don’t know how you expect me to make it without you. I’ll fall apart.”
“If you really care for me, you’ll call him and tell him how much I love him.”
They’re codependent
Codependency is a type of relationship where every action is designed to elicit a certain reaction from the other individual.
It’s a vicious cycle of behavior, but energy vampires rarely recognize that they’re in them.
They use these relationships — often romantic ones — to continue spinning a cycle of drama and emotional need.
For example:
“I know this isn’t a good relationship, but it’s so much better than trying to get over him and learn to date again.”
“If I just ignore him for a few days, he’ll totally beg for forgiveness and come crawling back.”
They criticize or bully
At their core, energy vampires are often insecure. They may use dehumanizing tactics and criticisms to keep their “prey” insecure, too.
In this state, you feel like you owe them your attention and should continue to work to stop the unwarranted attacks.
For example:
“I was too stupid to expect better from you. Everyone else treats me like garbage, so why not you?”
“You were in over your head from the beginning, and I told you that.”
They intimidate
One step removed from criticizing or bullying you, intimidation is a tool some energy vampires turn to when they need to stir up some emotional fodder.
Fear is a very strong emotional reaction. If an energy vampire can upset you, they can bolster their ego.
For example:
“I won’t tell you this again and again.”
“You don’t deserve a promotion. You don’t show that you even really want it.”
Why it matters and what to do
Energy vampires demand a lot from the people they target.
This continuous drain on your resources can have a noticeable effect on your well-being. Over time, excess stress can lead to anxiety, depression, heart disease, and more.
That’s why it’s important to recognize the behaviors and then work to remove them.
This may involve putting up walls to protect against an energy vampire’s efforts — or removing the person from your life entirely.
The ideas below may not work for everyone. Try them and mold your approach as you go until you’re able to feel in control and protected.
Establish boundaries
Although this may be easier said than done at first, you can and should develop areas of your life where you won’t allow an energy vampire to enter.
Don’t agree to social events like dinner or coffee dates. Avoid weekend trips and other extended events where they’ll be in attendance.
At work, you can limit interactions between the two of you by not agreeing to lunches and not stopping by their desk to chat.
You may need to start small, focusing on a few areas, and then expand.
Adjust your expectations
You can’t fix an energy vampire, but you can reshape your expectations about them.
This may involve shutting off your emotional valve and not offering advice when they vent their problems to you.
This may also mean you can’t use them as any type of emotional release either. They’ll want to reciprocate.
Don’t give them an inch
If the energy vampire calls, stops by, or texts, don’t give them the room.
Offer an excuse — “I’m too tired” or “I’m too busy” will do. You could say that you’ve got plans or don’t feel well.
When they keep interfacing with excuses and not getting the emotional energy they need, they’ll look elsewhere.
Guard your emotional capacity
Energy vampires use nonverbal cues to know when they have someone on the hook. Your facial expression, the way you lean in, how you clasp your hands — an energy vampire can take these as signs of your investment.
If you instead offer stone-faced responses and only offer short statement to their questions, you won’t open yourself up to their demands, and you can reserve your energy for you.
Cut them out entirely
In most cases, you have the freedom to excise this person from your life entirely. This may seem dramatic, but you have to remember that you’re protecting yourself in the end.
The bottom line
By recognizing these behaviors and trying to put an end to it, you’re protecting yourself, your health, and your overall well-being.
No one deserves to be mistreated or used in this manner. It’s certainly not your fault.
Some people refuse to accept responsibility for their own emotional maturity — and that isn’t your burden to bear.
https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/energy-vampires#takeaway
6 Types of Energy Vampires That Emotionally Exhaust You
Have you ever felt completely drained, depleted, and exhausted around a particular person, for no apparent reason? If so, you may have come across an energy vampire. And they’re more common than you think. f you feel perpetually “sucked dry” by the people in your life, it’s time to get help. What is an Energy Vampire? An energy vampire is a person who feeds off your emotional or psychic energy. People who display energy vampire traits generally lack empathy, consideration, and/or emotional maturity. As a result of the pain or insecurity they feel inside, energy vampires are addicted to preying on the vitality of others as an attempt to heal their inner suffering.
Essentially, an energy vampire could be anyone such as a friend, family member, colleague, acquaintance, child, son or daughter, or even a romantic partner. If you’re a highly empathetic caring person, it’s also possible to actively attract energy vampires into your life. Unfortunately, if you’re a highly sensitive person who doesn’t know how to set boundaries, it’s quite likely that you’re already surrounded by energy vampires left, right, and center.
Energy vampires are attracted to you because they unconsciously desire to resolve a deeper problem within their psyches — and they perceive YOU as the solution to their problems.
6 Energy Vampire Types While it’s easy to feel resentful towards energy vampires, it’s important to remember that they haven’t developed the capacity to deal with their issues yet.
Energy vampires prey on others because they are in pain. However, the important thing to remember is that you are NOT responsible for resolving their issues. THEY are responsible for sorting out their struggles. Often, an energy vampire leaves us feeling so drained that we are incapable of taking care of ourselves. As a result of constantly interacting with an energy vampire, we might feel chronically fatigued, depressed, anxious, irritable or angry. It’s vital that you learn how to “draw the line” and set boundaries around these types of people. Without learning how to identify the different types of energy vampires in your life, it can be difficult for you to practice self-nurturing and assertiveness.
Here are the six main energy vampire types out there:
6 Types of Energy Vampires That Emotionally Exhaust You
Have you ever felt completely drained, depleted, and exhausted around a particular person, for no apparent reason? If so, you may have come across an energy vampire. And they’re more common than you think. If you feel perpetually “sucked dry” by the people in your life, it’s time to get help. What is an Energy Vampire? An energy vampire is a person who feeds off your emotional or psychic energy. People who display energy vampire traits generally lack empathy, consideration, and/or emotional maturity. As a result of the pain or insecurity they feel inside, energy vampires are addicted to preying on the vitality of others as an attempt to heal their inner suffering.
Essentially, an energy vampire could be anyone such as a friend, family member, colleague, acquaintance, child, son or daughter, or even a romantic partner. If you’re a highly empathetic caring person, it’s also possible to actively attract energy vampires into your life. Unfortunately, if you’re a highly sensitive person who doesn’t know how to set boundaries, it’s quite likely that you’re already surrounded by energy vampires left, right, and center.
Energy vampires are attracted to you because they unconsciously desire to resolve a deeper problem within their psyches — and they perceive YOU as the solution to their problems.
6 Energy Vampire Types While it’s easy to feel resentful towards energy vampires, it’s important to remember that they haven’t developed the capacity to deal with their issues yet. Energy vampires prey on others because they are in pain. However, the important thing to remember is that you are NOT responsible for resolving their issues. THEY are responsible for sorting out their struggles.
Often, an energy vampire leaves us feeling so drained that we are incapable of taking care of ourselves. As a result of constantly interacting with an energy vampire, we might feel chronically fatigued, depressed, anxious, irritable or angry. It’s vital that you learn how to “draw the line” and set boundaries around these types of people. Without learning how to identify the different types of energy vampires in your life, it can be difficult for you to practice self-nurturing and assertiveness. Here are the six main energy vampire types out there: 1. The Victim or Martyr Vampire Victim or Martyr Vampires prey off your guilt. Victims/Martyrs believe that they are “at the mercy” of the world and suffer primarily due to other people. Instead of taking self-responsibility for their lives, Victim/Martyr Vampires continually blame, manipulate, and emotionally blackmail others. The dysfunctional behavior of the Victim/Martyr Vampire is due to their extremely low self-esteem. As their issues most likely stem from a lack of love, validation, and approval as children, Victim/Martyr Vampires feel fundamentally unworthy and unacceptable – and they try to resolve this pain by underhandedly gaining sympathy/empathy from you by making you feel guilty.
How to nurture your energy: When you’re around a Victim/Martyr Vampire, be aware of their self-pity cues. For example, a self-pity cue could be the person’s tendency to blame another person for their suffering, or perhaps a description of how terrible their day has been. Don’t get involved in their self-pity. Limit your interaction with them if possible.
2. The Narcissist Vampire A Narcissist Energy Vampire has no capacity to show empathy or genuine interest toward other people. Narcissist Vampires carry the unconscious philosophy of “ME first, YOU second.” Therefore, Narcissist Vampires will constantly expect you to put them first, feed their egos, and do what they say – no matter what. Narcissist Vampires will also manipulate you with false charm, but will just as quickly turn around and stab you in the back when the fancy strikes them. If you have a Narcissist Vampire in your life, you might feel a sense of extreme disempowerment as you feel crushed beneath their limelight and self-absorption.
How to nurture your energy: If you’re unable to cut away this person from your life right now, try to limit contact. You could also show the Narcissistic Vampire how your requests satisfy their self-interest, particularly if you’re in a working relationship.
3. The Dominator Vampire Dominator Vampires love to feel superior and like “alpha” males or females. Due to their deep inner insecurities of being “weak” or “wrong” (and therefore hurt), Dominator Vampires must overcompensate by intimidating you. Often Dominator Vampires are loud-mouthed types of people who have rigid beliefs and black-and-white perceptions of the world. They are often racist, sexist, homophobic, and/or bigoted.
How to nurture your energy: Agree to disagree. Practice calm assertiveness when necessary and limit your contact with Dominator Vampires. Realize that their attempt to scare you is sourced from their deep fear of being dominated and thus hurt.
4. The Melodramatic Vampire The Melodramatic Energy Vampire thrives on creating problems. Often, their need to create constant drama is the product of a dark underlying emptiness in their lives. Melodramatic Vampires also love seeking out crises because it gives them a reason to feel victimized (thus special and in need of love), an exaggerated sense of self-importance, and avoidance from life’s real issues. Another reason why Melodramatic Vampires enjoy creating drama is that the negative emotions that they feed off are addictive (such as anger).
How to nurture your energy: Refuse to take sides or be involved in the Melodramatic Vampire’s pot-stirring. Pay attention to the patterns in their behavior and the triggers that make you want to get involved. Create distance and remove them from your life if possible.
5. The Judgmental Vampire Due to their severely low self-worth, the Judgmental Energy Vampire loves to pick on other people. Their treatment of others is merely a reflection of how they treat themselves. Judgmental Vampires enjoy preying on your insecurities and bolstering their egos by making you feel small, pathetic, or ashamed.
How to nurture your energy: Remember that true self-worth must come from within. Refuse to take what the Judgmental Vampire says personally. Be aware of their deeper pain and their need to feel good about themselves. When you get defensive, you lose. Keep a balanced head, and try being sweet to them (that really throws them off balance!). Reduce, or cut off contact with them if possible.
6. The Innocent Vampire Energy Vampires aren’t always malicious, as is the case with Innocent Vampires. Sometimes they can be helpless types of people who genuinely need help such as children or good friends who come to rely on you too much. It’s wonderful to help those you care about, but it’s also important that you encourage them to be self-sufficient. Playing the role of the constant “rock” or support will eventually erode your energy. As a result, you’ll have little energy to support yourself.
How to nurture your energy: Helping those in need is a display of compassion and love, but you also need to remember to love yourself. Gently remind the Innocent Vampire in your life that you need time to yourself as well. Encourage them to develop strength, fortitude, and resilience so that you can remove the role of constant caretaker or giver. https://lonerwolf.com/types-energy-vampire/