the idea of imps in folk lore abounds, also known as demons, they manifest in people at the strangest of time and in the strangest of ways, like all mental frameworks these are mapped and charted in the same way that psychology charts various pathology's and disorders. i always see them in people, but half of me perceives the diagnostic medical term, the other half sees the i'm or in a hybrid form the impulse that is at work.
each impulse is a reaction to certain conditions.
the best way to deal with an imp is to calculate if it's intension is positive or negative? if it's an impulse that depletes or nurtures you?
then if it's positive it's worthwhile keeping in your service but never letting it become to powerful that it grows in power, or if it's negative then it's worthwhile acknowledging it, understanding it, loving it and let it go.