[Ornamiviant]

I think that, to some degree, people are mixing up physical energy drain with psychic energy drain. Yes, they are intimately linked, but there are also very different actions going on, with often completely different causes. You can have physical energy drain by being physically sick. This is at a chemical level, and won't be corrected until the physical problem is corrected. On the other hand, you can be perfectly healthy physically and experience psychic energy drain...created by yourself or others. Your own strong emotions can drain your psychic energy...as in becoming angry. Blaming that on another person, "he/she made me mad", will bring about an instance of you being the cause of leaking your own energy. No one can make you mad, that is a choice that you have made. If someone is around who will soak up that energy, it's still not always the case that they "sucked" it from you. You gave it freely, probably unconsciously, but you made the choice to become angry.

I agree. Just wanted to add some of my experience. One of my ex-friends (after a couple of huge fights we decided that we don't really need each other), decided one day that I actually was a psychic vampire, and not just messing around imagining stuff (he's very catholic and fundementalist, I am sure that "insight" shook his world theroy to the ground, and I was given much of the blame). I am pretty sure he scanned the net for all possible info, including the false and made-up info written by roleplayers, fakes, lifestylers and plain nutjobs, and then he would sort of hate / fear me. I could just sit in a room and suddenly feel this incoming channel of prana flowing into me. At the time I wasn't that skilled in energy work to cut off the link, but I was sensitive enough to feel the "positive" effects of this energy pouring down into me, seemingly out of nowhere. Then later would my xfriend come up to me and give me hell about how I stole his energy. I did nothing lol, I believe all the xfriend did was thinking "oh my god, he's draining me, he's draining me WTF SHOULD I DO?!?!?" and automatically start pouring energy into me. This happened like too many times, and in the end I couldn't bother to explain to him again and again and again that I did not suck his energy into me, he did this by constantly telling himself that I stole his energy. And it wouldn't help that I also told him I was pretty sure I wasn't a vampire after all. Sigh.

And about depression, yeah I've been there too, for two shorter periods in my life. You become so tired you can't find motivation to do anything, and you almost become blocked mentally, making studying and socializing very hard, painful perhaps even impossible. So. You sleep to escape.

Am in a rush so I can't check the post for spellchecks etc. will do that later.