Very real vampires are stalking their prey from the shadows not the supernatural kind, but people we deal with every day, who deliberately drain our mental and emotional energy.
Many of these predators know exactly how much frustration, anger, and anxiety they inflict, while others carry on virtually unaware of the damage they cause, and victim are many times unaware that they are being bled.
What is an emotional predator?
These "vampires" manipulate, use, and psychologically abuse friends, relatives, and even total strangers. By controlling situations and people for their own purposes, these emotional "blood suckers" gain strength to strike again.
Vampires is the field guide for recognizing and combating these predators.
Psychic vampires are people who, having never received love, settle for power and become experts at robbing other people of theirs--figuratively sucking their blood.
In this, the first book-length treatment of the vampire archetype, Barbara Holt breaks new ground in analyzing how these vampiric people originate, how they operate, how we play into their traps, and how we can break free of their seductive power.
It’s almost supernatural how quickly Emotional Vampires can get you to trust them, then, just as quickly, get under your skin and drain you dry. It’s downright scary how quickly they can trick you into letting them come back and do it again.
Psychologists would diagnose Emotional Vampires with Personality Disorders, those strange mental illnesses drive other people crazy.
To protect yourself from children of the night, you must understand what personality disorders are, and how they operate.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
This , of course, applies to men as well as women.
