Energy Vampires

Do you feel exhausted after being with certain people? That's how energy vampires drain your spirit. Here are 11 ways to protect yourself from these negative influences.

Energy vampires drain your spirit by depleting your positive energy, just like real vampires slurp blood. Energy vampires - such as drama queens - leave you feeling drained and listless, but these eleven ways to protect yourself from negative influences will help!

After a visit with an energy vampire, you barely have enough energy to watch tv - much pursue your goals or take care of your responsibilities. The energy vampire's negative influences have consumed your positive energy.

How Energy Vampires Drain Your Spirit

Energy vampires drain positive energy in many ways, such as:

* Intruding on your life, ignoring boundaries and privacy (energy vampires don't think of you).
* Making big deals out of nothing. Energy vampires are often called "drama queens" because they can easily turn a broken nail into a Shakespearean tragedy. Negative energy spreads from everyday events.
* Complaining constantly about their partners, jobs, children, bad luck, and illnesses. Energy vampires like to vent.
* Criticizing your hair, appearance, job, children, partner, friends, and pets (energy vampires aren't positive).
* Not taking "no" for an answer. Energy vampires don't consider your needs.
* Being unrelentingly negative. Their negative energy is relentless, and energy vampires drain your positive energy by encouraging you to be negative, too.
* Blaming everyone else for their problems (energy vampires don't take responsibility).

How Energy Vampires Drain Energy & Why You Feel Depressed After a Conversation

You know you've spent time with an energy vampire when you leave feeling depressed, exhausted, or sad. Energy vampires drain your positive energy for their own use. Energy vampires leave you feeling empty and sluggish — and to compensate or build positive energy you may eat, drink, shop, or sleep for hours afterwards.
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Energy Vampires Need Your Positive Energy

Energy vampires come in all shapes and sizes: loud and aggressive, soft-spoken and shy, charming and seductive, pushy and overbearing. Energy vampires have energy leaks that they need to fill. It's up to you to stop energy vampires from draining your positive energy.

Often energy vampires don't even realize they're bleeding you dry. Energy vampires have often suffered some sort of crisis, whether in childhood or adulthood, and they're compensating to get rid of their negative energy. Energy vampires may not be deliberately, maliciously stealing your positive energy -- but they're definitely not contributing to a fantastic relationship.

Energy Vampires may drain positive energy, but you can learn to stop them!
11 Ways to Protect Yourself From Energy Vampires:

1. Limit the amount of time you spend with energy vampires. The less time you're together, the less positive energy you'll lose.
2. Learn effective ways to end conversations with energy vampires (eg, I only have ten minutes to talk.")
3. Stay calm and detached from energy vampires. Don't let their negative energy consume you.
4. Be honest about your needs (eg, "I need this time to work/read/relax/exercise.")
5. Refrain from attempting to rescue them or fix an energy vampire's problems.
6. Practice walking away from energy vampires.; the more you do it, the easier it gets.
7. Limit eye contact with energy vampires.
8. Avoid being in close spaces with energy vampires (elevators, cars, etc). Negative energy is catching.
9. Define and guard your personal space from energy vampires.
10. Tell energy vampires you feel uncomfortable discussing particular people or circumstances.
11. Stand up for yourself and your boundaries! Your time, positive energy, and resources are precious and should be closely guarded from energy vampires.

Yea, do your best to stay away from the parasites and cut off any bottom feeders.

Ineresting, reminds me of the celestine prophecy

i work with one & just got off. she's real bad ass & opinionated, which i like. but at the same time, she is needy for attention & spews sooo much judgmental bullshit. she tries to stomp on me cause i don't share her fire for contempt...the type of personality that has to try to be nice. the world is harsh enough, why fuel it? that is my motto.

it's difficult for me to deal with cause i can take things personally, so it is all the more important to detach. i left wondering, what the fuck is her deal. after stumbling upon this thread, it seems clearer.

who knows. maybe i'm a vamp to her? can see it working both ways in a dynamic, y'know. differences.

I seem to attract these types of people...
I wonder why...

Posted by FancyPants
I seem to attract these types of people...
I wonder why...

lol well they say you are who u attracted even though you might not see it that energy is within you somewhere that you cannot notice it.

you can change and those type of people will stay away from you.

Posted by LeGendary ViRGo

Posted by FancyPants
I seem to attract these types of people...
I wonder why...

lol well they say you are who u attracted even though you might not see it that energy is within you somewhere that you cannot notice it.

you can change and those type of people will stay away from you.

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Sounds like some soul searching!
Does that mean I'm just as an energy vamp?

Posted by TasteOfChaos
I work with a Negative Nancy... Gemini

I dont even ask her how she is anymore, cant be fucked listening to her woe stories or her health problems anymore...

If we do secret santa this year, I hope I get her... Ill buy her one gun, one bullet and write in her card "JUST DO IT"

Haha, I love it!

Fuck yeah TOC you fucking evil Libra you *pinches cheek*

How Energy Vampires Drain Your Spirit

Energy vampires drain positive energy in many ways, such as:

* Intruding on your life, ignoring boundaries and privacy (energy vampires don't think of you).
* Making big deals out of nothing. Energy vampires are often called "drama queens" because they can easily turn a broken nail into a Shakespearean tragedy. Negative energy spreads from everyday events.
* Complaining constantly about their partners, jobs, children, bad luck, and illnesses. Energy vampires like to vent.
* Criticizing your hair, appearance, job, children, partner, friends, and pets (energy vampires aren't positive).
* Not taking "no" for an answer. Energy vampires don't consider your needs.
* Being unrelentingly negative. Their negative energy is relentless, and energy vampires drain your positive energy by encouraging you to be negative, too.
* Blaming everyone else for their problems (energy vampires don't take responsibility).

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There people are a huge pain in the ass. But you know what? The ones that seem to talk about drawing these types of people tend to be just like them.

My work partner for little over a year is a Taurus and she talks about toxic people but holy cow, she can be just like the people she talks about 😢 Especially when she is having problems with her husband. Plus, she has to have attention right then and there, that's worse than any child in my activities group, Oy!