Today is the first day of my blog on Energy Vampires

I am a licensed psychotherapist in Southern California. It doesn't matter where you live to find people who are Energy Vampires. A friend of mine is married to an Energy Vampire. She told me that I need to help teach people about this problem. She was angry that she never knew what was wrong with her husband and she let him treat her badly for almost 30 years, making her feel like she was stupid, wrong and that everything bad was her fault. She knows differently now since we have been friends.

As a therapist, I see Energy Vampires and their Drained Souls everyday. They are EVERYWHERE. They are teaching your kids, they are taking your temperature at the doctor's office, they are the doctor, they are giving you the finger at a stop light, etc. They might not be acting like a Emotional Vampire at the very moment that you meet them, but they come out later, not like in the darkness (like Dracula), but when you least expect it. Oprah has had them on her show and no one understood their behavior and why they did the thing that they were there talking about. Even Oprah doesn't ever have a show on this problem. It is time to come out of the dark. This issue needs exposure.

Usually, I don't see Energy Vampires or Blood Suckers in my office. They might come in as part of a problem, but it only because the more rational, but the Drained Soul in the relationship is calling asking for help. Energy Vampires don't ask for help from therapists. They think all of their needs SHOULD be supplied by the Drained Soul(s) in their lives--and if they can't do it for them, then they just drain the poor souls dry of their blood and make them feel bad for not doing enough for them...........despite attempts to help the Energy Vampire.

Usually, these sad Drained Souls think that there is something wrong with them. In most cases, there are some co-dependency issues, but these people are just not well-versed in the understanding of what makes a person an Energy Vampire.

Know anyone who makes you feel like you have to walk on eggshells around them? Know anyone who treats you like you are bad, an idiot or just useless when you actually try very hard to be the opposite? Do you ever wonder why this person says you did things or says that you said things that you never did and that no matter what you do, you can't do anything right? Are you blamed for everything wrong in the relationship--even when it makes NO logical sense?

No one ever learns about this stuff in school and they should teach it. Understanding mental illness and personality disorders, which runs rampant in our society, is important for survival. Maybe more important than Chemistry class.

My goal in blogging is to explain what these people are and to create a forum for those who need to vent their frustrations over these Blood Suckers. I will set up a message board to go to and a website to help Drained Souls find a way to manage their lives in the presence of an Energy Vampire. My goal is to help the Drained Souls to get their energy and their soul back before they are sucked dry.