"...its not scientifically proven..."
"its too rpgish!"
"it affects my life in a negative manner..."
"Its too hard!"
I"ve been hearing it for many many years. Almost EVERY vamp goes through
it at some point.. they TRY to QUIT being a vampyre...
I understand how it goes.. I've even tried it myself, for a number of years.
So... what do I tell Vampyres who come to me and say they are not going to be
a vampyre anymore? I tell them the same thing I tell people who want to know
if they NEED blood. I tell them to go ahead and try. Why do I tell them that?
In my experience, if you are a non-vamp and want to try blood, a rare steak
will NOT do anyone any harm. (Its what I always recomend new vamps to try FIRST)
Literally MILLIONS of people like their steaks rare and blue rare.. not all
of them are vampyres, and I don't know of anyone who has become ill from eating
a good rare steak from an inspected source. If the person is NOT a vampyre it
will not do them any harm, nor will it do them any vampyric good... if the person
IS a vampyre, they often know right away if it helps them.
The same applies to NOT drinking blood, or trying to STOP being a vampyre...
If they are NOT a real vampyre, a person SHOULD be able to walk away from blood
drinking and not look back.
If the person really IS a vampyre, they will know within a few months if they
actually NEED blood to be healthy. If they are FINE without blood, chances are
they are not and never really were a Sanguine Vampyre. If you are going thorugh
this phaze, my advice to you is TRY abstenance.
- Watch for any and all signs of becoming emotionally unstable.
- Watch for any and all signs of becoming physically weak, constantly sick
or apathetic.
IF you dont' have any trouble with leaving it all behind, and remain healthy,
happy and stable, RUN as far away from the vamp communities as you can and stay
away. You do not need the OVC if you are NOT a vampyre. Feel free to find a
place you really DO belong!
If, on the other hand, you find yourself becoming apathetic, extremely ill,
raging over a thirst you can not cure with water.... GO SEE A DOCTOR... if the
Doctor can not help you, go back to trying rare steaks and see if you feel better
in a week..
There is a great deal more to Sanguinarian Vampyrism than just the need for
Blood... Unfortunately it's the need for blood that tends to make our lives
unnecessarily difficult.
If you find you NEED blood, and it is creating difficulties in your life I
stongly suggest that you take up loving blue rare steaks. Some people are grossed
out by rare steak, but most people realize that it is not abnormal to like them.
As a waitress for many years, rare steak was the 2nd most popular way to order
a steak cooked. The first is medium rare. Family and friends are very unlikely
to abuse you much, or think it terribly odd if you develop a taste for getting
your blood this way. No it's not the way we crave it...but it IS an easy way
to deal with being a vampyre, when a need for blood causes difficulities for
a vampyre with friends and or family.
No responsible person in the vamp communities will ever encourage a
NON-VAMP to think or believe they are Sanguine if the person in question believe
they are NOT a Vampyre.
If Anyone TRIES to push the belief that you are a vampyre ON you.. leave the
community immediately. The things that are good and healthy and applicable to
vampyres are often NOT good or applicable for a non-vamp and thus "playing
vampyre" can do you more harm than good both physically AND mentally.
Balance comes when a person - ANY PERSON - accepts who and what they truly
are. Very little good comes from trying to be someone or something you are NOT.
Sometimes it takes YEARS to come to term with and come to understand what it
means to truly BE vampyric... For those of us who are, it takes patience, and
a lot of trial and error. Don't worry! IF you ARE a vampyre, it will not go
away. If you ARE NOT a vampyre it was never really there in the first place
and you will never go through the stages an changes that real sanguine vampyres
have to deal with.
Be patient with yourself. You have your whole life ahead of you to figure it
all out. Hopefully, by then, the Community will have even better help and information
than it does now, since research into vampyrism is ongoing.
We are the first generation to really keep records of what we are and what
kind of changes we go through. We are learning more about our state of being
EVERYDAY. Hopefully a time will come when we will have answers for everyone.
Till then we'll just continue to muddle through it together.
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