The YoungMinds campaigns director, Lucie Russell, said: "Every day we hear about the unprecedented toxic climate children and young people face in a 24/7 online culture where they can never switch off."
Teens are so emotionally invested in social media that a fifth will wake up at night and log on.
"Mental health is the biggest unaddressed health challenge of our age, and young people's mental health must be a top priority for Britain."
Girls are likely to experience stress more frequently than boys, and more often than the average adult, with girls feeling stressed an average of twice a week.
June Eric Udorie writes in the Guardian:
"It’s becoming more and more obvious how the pressures of social media disproportionately affect teenage girls. I can see it all around me. Pressure to be perfect. To look perfect, act perfect, have the perfect body, have the perfect group of friends, the perfect amount of likes on Instagram. Perfect, perfect, perfect. And if you don’t meet these ridiculously high standards, then the self-loathing and bullying begins.
What is really worrying is that time and time again, these studies pop up and demonstrate that the mental health of teenagers, especially teenage girls, is on the line. We know this. We need the State to act".
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