Psychic Vampirism: Types of Psyvamp

I'll start with telling you the types of psychic vampires and what they generally are.
Some people find that their energies are out of balance, and on many occassions unhealthy lifetyles, (ex. not eating right, never excercising, too much stress, not enough sleep, etc.) may cause their bodies to adapt, becoming psychic vampires/vampyres, a.k.a. psy/psi vamps. Some are just born that way and don't even notice what they're doing for a while--some even go their whole lives without knowing. My theory is that they're just spirtually sensitive (Stars maybe?) people with a glitch in their energies, such as low chi, prana, or other life energies. Note that I am in no way against psyvamps, the word vampire often makes a stereotype that they can't get away from and in turn ruins their reputation. Not all psychic vampires are goth, but I'll admit it's popular.
Ironically, psyvamps are generally more vampiric than sanguinarians (a.k.a . sangs--the kind that lack the psy-tendrils necessary for a psy to feed and need to get the energy they need from blood). Many are paler, more sensitive to sunlight, nocturnal, etc.
Psyvamps feed off of the energies in either people's auras, chakras, emotions, or the elements (even sunlight, ironically). Most of them still need to eat, but there are a few who claim to've ditched food.
There are several "types" of psyvamps, I've listed them here. All of these are references from the site, http://www.psychicvampires.org.
1. Astral Vampire:
"A psychic vampire that exists on the astral plane. It can also be a skilled magician whose physical body has died, but chooses to resist the second death or astral death, by way of becoming a psychic vampire... It is also a psychic vampire that has died in the physical plane but for some reason may not be able to incarnate."
2. Emotional Vampire:
"It is important to note that there are three forms of emotional vampires; The First one is the psychological term of an emotionally needy person. This person may not technically be a vampire just an ordinary mundane person who might have had something traumatize them, and they crave the constant attention or emotional energy from a person... Unfortunately for the vampire community, psychologists have coined the term "psychic vampire,"to represent these emotional vampires... They are often called emotional leeches. Without help, these types of people are usually incapable of having a normal healthy relationship... But with therapy, they usually get better.
"The Second is a branch of the first but they are often called Social Vampires-These are the "Drama Queens," they feed on the drama in the community...and the attention they get... They are generally not looked kindly upon.
"The Third is a Psychic vampire that feeds on emotion... Think of the latter as this: (speaking in metaphors now) Psychic vampires feed on prana/energy, take a prism and split it (pranic energy) like you would sunlight, from there you get certain emotions like colors of the rainbow, happiness, sadness, fear, greed, etc... Some Emotional vampires only feed on certain emotions, just as others feed on anything they can find..."
3. Elemental Vampire:
"Elemental vampires feed off of Natural Phenomena ie: lightening storms, thunder storms, hurricanes, ocean tides, ley lines, waterfalls and natural events. While some exclusively feed on elemental events and forces, some just use the elements to supplement their feeding until they can get a donor or person to feed from... Though typically the first seems to be more common. "
4. Pranic Vampire:
"This is more common and possibly more correct term for psychic vampire. Prana is the Sanskrit word meaning "life energy," which does more accurately describe the energy that they feed on. Pranic Vampires have a broken or in most cases removed chakra, generally the navel, but in some cases the heart chakra. Often times this type of Psychic vampire has a completely reworked energy system. Pranic vampire is generally a catch-all term and may encompass the other types of psychic vampires as well."
5. Sexual Vampire:
"A sexual vampire is a person who feeds on sexual energy. They are sometimes called Tantric Vampires, as they tap into the very essence of the universe. With this type of feeding the other partners very breath, sigh, moan, movement, and caress is drawn for energy. In eastern practices Tantra is a means by which one can achieve enlightenment, and connects with the universe... Love etc. So it is no wonder would feed off of such energy."
6. Symbiotics:
"This is another form of psychic vampire with the exeption that these people survive on the draining of negative energy alone. As an example, usually they will seek out and draw strength from sickness in any human they encounter. In draining the negative energy a victim invariably feels better and is possibly even healthier. The difference between the two form is that Symbiotics drain negative energy with intent but at the same time do not wish to harm their victim. There is a variation of Symbiotics that are astral vampires.
"These Astral symbionts are sentient; But might not always have been. Some of these Astral symbionts are indeed entities, but once may have been constructs, that were left unattended and unchecked long enough to gain a form of sentience. Some even still, hold to the belief that these astral vampires are "Undead Gods."
7. Sympathetic Psychic Vampires:
"A sympathetic psychic vampire is an individual who may have a broken chakra, or some wound to the subtle body that can be healed. It is also a term used when they feed on a person and they take on the vampiric tendancies for a short time in order to normalize their own personal energy. For the most part these conditions are almost always temporary. But the person may become addicted to the "high" of feeding.
8. Learned Psychic Vampires:
"The learned psychic vampire is a skilled magician or psion that feeds on psychic energy and may also try and pass themselves off as psychic vampires. Now the skilled magician often times practices this during their life so that they can get skilled enough so that at the point of their own death they may choose to become an astral vampire and avoid the second death.
The Psion however is just an energy worker, who may feed but doesn't technically need to..."
In my next post I will explain how to block a psyvamp attack and what chakras are.