Q+A
Q What is an energy vampire, and what effect do they have on us?
When I use the term ‘energy vampire’, I’m talking about a subgroup of people – about one in five of us – who, in psychiatry, are called Cluster B personalities, with narcissistic, borderline, histrionic and antisocial personality disorders, and there’s a spectrum; you can certainly live with someone who’s a little self-centred, and has narcissistic traits and then, at the other end, there are full-blown psychopaths, and they are the ones with no conscience.