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



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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