energy vampires
People who exhaust
Energy vampires are people who drain others emotionally through constant negativity, neediness, or drama.
The metaphor casts social and emotional exhaustion as a kind of life-force extraction: I had to stop hanging out with her—she's such an energy vampire.
The term belongs to pop psychology and self-help discourse, often appearing alongside advice about setting boundaries.
- leechBlood-feeding aquatic worm
- drainChannel for wastewater
- sighAudible emotional breath
- parasiticExploiting a host organism
- depletionReduction of supply
groan · exhaustion · self-regulation · exploitative · passive aggressive · sapping · overbearing · walking on eggshells · generators · narcissist · anxiety · demanding · whine · stress · codependency · people pleaser · slump · nag
- negativistspessimists, defeatists, doomers, doomsayers, negative Nellies
energy vampiresenergizers
Things that stimulate activity
radiators · uplifters · batteries · rechargers · sparks
energy vampiresgivers
Those who donate
nurturers · supporters · encouragers · empowerers · empaths
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