''Renfield Syndrome''

By Crusader1307

While ''Renfield Syndrome'' is best regulated to the world of fantasy - eg Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), the ''condition'' is seen as a REAL psychological disorder. ''Named'' (as it were), for the fictional character which appeared in the 19th century Novel, much as His ''ailment'', The supposed syndrome claimed that a person (thru no supernatural means), ''needs'' human (or in general) - BLOOD to survive! Not completely classified as a ''classical'' vampire, actual Patients clam that blood is a form of sustainance DESPERATELTY needed for their (percieved) survival.

Science states that an inordinate ''need'' to derive actual ''life force'' from suce ''intake'' is rooted in both pesudo-religious and traumatic reasoning. First ''speculated'' as a ''mental disorder'' as eaely as 1892, it is assumed that Irish Fiction Writer Bram Stoker ''used'' (via research), the malady to ''flesh out'' his ''demonic charachter'' ''Renfield'' fo his Novel (1897) ''Dracula''.