"If all we do is highlight our highest of highs while being quiet about our lows, we're bound to make the world a lonelier place."

Being happy is hard sometimes, but surrounding yourself with people who love you and taking the time to be kind to yourself can give you something to actually smile about during this holiday season. 

Netflix's Big Mouth has remained one of the streaming service's best examinations of the complex world of puberty.

Here are five positive, soul-affirming actions you can take to heal, re-energize, and move forward.

The language we use around addiction is already problematic, but when it comes to women in the public eye we tend to feed off their pain, while simultaneously not believing them when they say they are hurting.

This is not to say that face masks, spa days, and other traditionally feminine activities and things are inherently bad. But we need to consider how it's become a commodity of sorts, a way for us to spend more money. It also paints a different look at self care than what we necessarily need.

Comedian Michelle Wolf had a brilliant segment on The Break with Michelle Wolf about how much our culture of pretending everything is fine and dandy contributes to silence about our own mental health and the stigma around mental illness.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline number is 1-800-273-8255. En Español: 1-888-628-9454; Deaf and Hard of Hearing: 1-800-799-4889. Crisis Text Line by texting 741741.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's powerful statement about depression brought the internet together. "You’re not alone." 

People have been wondering why a second season of Netflix's 13 Reasons Why is necessary, considering that the first season wrapped up the story of the book on which it's based pretty firmly. Yet Season Two is coming, and the show seems to want to do better by teens who may be struggling with the sensitive issues depicted on the show. Take, for example, the show's new intro in the video after the jump.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has now issued updated guidelines aiming to combat depression in adolescents. Their suggestion: universal annual screenings for depression, starting at age 12.

Gun violence is not caused by mental illness, but it is a mental health issue, and that's a small but important distinction that needs to be made.

I've been a huge fan of Netflix's reboot of the classic Norman Lear sitcom One Day at a Time since its first season. However in the back of my mind, I worried about something that I think everyone worries about when they love something right out of the gate: the Sophomore Slump. Thankfully, I had no need to worry. Season Two of the show recently launched on Netflix, and it improved on an already stellar first season.

It says a lot of about the brilliant, weird state of television today that one of the most psychologically astute pieces of modern entertainment centered around a man who turned himself into a pickle.

An email exchange between a web developer named Madalyn Parker and the CEO of her company has gone viral after she wrote to her team saying she was taking a few days off "to focus on [her] mental health." That in itself is a level of honesty that has struck many as uncommon. Even more surprising was her boss' response.

The cast of Justice League (the animated one, not the upcoming movie we're not entirely looking forward to) got together at Denver Comic Con to do a live read of the show's three-part series finale. It's a whole lot of fun and Kevin Conroy even slips in a little musical surprise.

I never thought I would see future monarchs discuss their own emotional travails so candidly.