About Damien Daville
Greetings..
I am a 48 year old primarily empathic vampire now living near the Austin area of
Texas in the States. I also like elemental sources, and am a sanguine vampire
with the right donor. I first learned of my vampirism as a teen in high school
around 1970, and have developed its needs and abilities ever since. I have
worked in some way helping others understand real vampirism for about thirty
years. I came to the internet about 1995 and worked online in the few vamp
forums around. I founded the Darkfear Network in early 1997, and then the
Vampire Church in 1998. I also founded Web Alliance. In 2001, I founded the Texas
Vampire Association, to better bring real vampires together in the state of
Texas. I spend most of my time now, working in the offline vampire community and
in the public, helping other
people to understand real vampirism. The Vampire Church is active both online
and offline.
Damien Daville
Damien is the founder and elder of the Vampire Church
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Question: As council members of the Vampire Church, and having experience in teaching and helping other people with their
vampirism, you must have noticed the prevalence of depression within the
vampire community, is it your opinion that depression is part and parcel of vampirism, or do you believe its outside influences which make
this such a common issue?
Greetings,
Depression is a common misunderstood mental and emotional ailment
that affects many people both who are real vampires and people who
are not. In my experience depression affects more real vampires as a
whole than the public. I believe there are reasons for this. Real
vampires are more sensitive and more affected by their surrounding
environment than other people, this in itself makes vampires more
susceptable to mental, emotional and physical ailments, including
depression. It is a common thing for real vampires to "feel" dispair
and lack of worth as a result of being affected by the energies of
people and the environment around them. If needed energies of a
beneficial nature are not had by vampires, then is the greater
tendency for suffering from some problems where a tendency exisits to
do so such as depression and anxiety. Vampires are more likely to
have depression and that makes it more of a problem for them than
other people. It is important to note that depression increases with
a genetic tendency for it, environmental influences, and being a
vampire because with vampirism there is an added factor for it as a
result of being affected more by one's environment. So it can be said
that being a vampire just adds another factor to others for the
tendency of developing depression, and that makes depression a
possible result of the vampiric condition.
Dark regards,
Damien Daville
Elder and Founder
The Vampire Church
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