Hello.

I'm Lindsay. I'm twenty years young. I live in a beautiful place with beautiful people. I've grown up in an upper-middle class family with a great education, and a wonderful group of friends.

But I have a darkness inside me.

Maybe, it's because it runs in my family--on my father's side. All three of my aunts, my grandmother and father all had it.

Maybe, it's just because being a young adult is hard. Going to school full time, stressing about grades and graduating, working nearly thirty hours a week on top of that, trying to have a social life, but still getting some sleep...

It's most likely some sort of combination of the two, don't you think?

I write to help myself. It's oddly therapeutic. I write to potentially help others. Sometimes, it's comforting to know you aren't the only soldier.

I have a dementor. It sucks the happiness from me and makes me feel cold. It makes me believe that I will never be happy again.

But my patronus is a strong one. A lioness, I imagine. And she won't let the dementor in.

So I welcome you to join me in the fight of this battle, not of Hogwarts, but of myself.