Everything can be considered energetic vampirism, be it humans, tv shows, news, what have you. It is about capturing of your interest, your attention, in a sense, manipulating your emotional state (energies, thoughts, beliefs).
"Where focus goes, energy flows"
That's my distilled version of whatever books one can write about the subject.. just noise...
When we discuss about toxic relationships and toxic masculinity (because it is trendy) and narcissism and bla bla bla... well, mostly wounded women lash out in that direction we can observe the idea of "he drains me, he sucks out my youth, my energy, my life out of me..."
Well, I share this example because it is so popular that anyone can stumble upon these and is relevant to the context.
One, people are not trees, in a relationship where there's this "effect" of energetic vampirism, the affected one can learn how to use healthy boundaries, might learn how to say No and so so many other lessons.
My guides and other entities are so glad and willing to share some of the happenings unfolding behind what we define as negative.
In this particular context and example with a toxic relationship in which the victim feels drained of energy of their life force, there are lessons to learn and lessons to teach.
We think in box kind of way, limited by our own experiences and knowledge but scenarios like the following are the most common ones.
In a relationship, a human experience relationship where there's states of conflict, arguing, abuse, physical, mental, even sexual in nature, that is what we experience at the human level.
Most of the times is painful, exhausting, mentally, physically and even spiritually heavy.
There's bad blood between the two (parties of the relationship), there's drama, there'... well, everybody knows how pushed to the negative extreems a relationship can be.
But at the soul level, there's nothing like that.
I've seen (because I can) so much love at soul level and so much, let's say crying when the symbol, the avatar of the abuser pushes the painful limits and the one abused suffers and endures and doesn't take a stand, or maybe they need to learn as I've previously mentioned a lesson about boundaries, or to lash out or even return the behavior to the role of the abuser... There are so so many lessons and so many entities which watch, observe, learn for our lessons, form our behavior, from our responses, from our lack of response.
I've seen "demons" undressing their role within the collective consciousness and they too were serving the idea of Light.
I've seen so many loving souls taking the role of the abusers for the human experience and I've seen so many guides literally paving the path as it is written in the soul's contract.
That is power, to take a role of a beggar and teach the world a lesson, to take the role of a child affected by cancer to teach the world a lesson, to take the role of the abuser to teach a loved one how to gather and find their power to stay strong and adopt a verticality in their core essence... it is a "sight" many would not accept with a human limited and analytical mind. Yet it is part of the Existence of all there is.
How to defend yourself from energy vampirism?
Push your limitations, adopt healthy boundaries, know yourself, don't accept and don't give away your power.
Remember that you have choices (even if these choices are not so obvious or easy to take)
Trust in yourself and even if you have doubts, know that doubt is teaching you that there's something more there.
Fear is also a messenger, don't run from what you fear, understand the message.
Abusive and violent physical behavior, trees can't move so easily, humans do.
Understand that where you offer your attention, in that direction your energy goes. If you feel betrayed, wounded, you feel injustice and you have not found a way to "right those wrongs" then stop being a victim and keep them close. Let it be experience from which you learned and not active wounds.
I've suggested so many times on various platforms that cord cutting rituals, should be done from a state of forgiveness, acceptance and love otherwise, the negative energy, the emotions with a negative impact will drain the energy...
But of course sometimes we need to lash out on others so we don't have to deal with our own lack of action, attitude or whatever. It is much more simpler to point fingers and say "they should change" instead of working on ourselves and not allow such behavior to happen again or to touch and affect us in a negative way.
"they are responsible for me feeling so down and exhausted, and miserable..."
Nope, what you feel is within you, only you should have access to those energies, states, emotions otherwise, that will be the ultimate slavery method... an exterior action to be able to screw you up inside without you moving a finger...
Nah... it is an agreement. Lack of action, lack of self-control is the an agreement.
"I don't oppose my vampire in any way, it is an agreement to keep offer my energy..."
A perspective, doesn't need to sound like a fact, I am aware that some need to explore other experiences.
Be well