But when she started befriending my friends, alarm bells rang in my head. Before long, her presence felt as stifling as someone's hot breath in a crowded elevator. I had to shake her off. Diggers are the most devastating type of energy vampire. Their bite sinks deeper than that of Talkers, Poor Me's and Shadows, and the symptoms are harder to treat.
Diggers work at the soul level.
They siphon your energy by filling you up with their private darkness. Like Shadows, they will bait you with questions and charm you by paying rapt attention to your revelations. Then they push deeply into you and, once inside, they tap into your insecurities to sow doubt and dissatisfaction. Her empathy encourages you to reveal your concerns, but once she has found the weak spot in your story, she will work that until it overwhelms everything else. And the Digger has absorbed all that you have surrendered.