'Vampires' keep doctors in the dark for fear of stereotyping: study
It is not easy being a vampire, and even harder to come out of the coffin to a physician or therapist for fear they will misinterpret the habit of ingesting the blood of willing donors or succumb to stereotyping, a study finds.
Research led by D.J. Williams, director of social work at Idaho State University, indicated that people who identify themselves as real vampires that is, needing others blood to gain energy would not disclose their practices to those in the helping professions and risk reactions like ridicule, disgust and possible diagnosis of a mental illness.
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They are successful, ordinary people, he said.
Except they are very, very tired. Thats apparently the chief reason they find a consenting adult willing to allow them to use a scalpel to make a tiny incision in the chest area so they can ingest a small amount of blood for energy, the study found.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/08/us-usa-vampires-study-idUSKCN0PI00N20150708