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Parents. >> julie: lydia hu live with more. >> ask any parent and they'll say it is hard to break a teen of a social media habit. two out of three american teens say they use tiktok. one concern here is jeopardizing mental health. growing research shows the connection between social media use and depression. according to the pew research center, anxiety or depression is a top concern among parents with more parents worried about mental health than concerned about being -- kids being bullied or using alcohol or drugs or even getting shots. watch this. >> i think the use of social media in an un...

Manner leads to a lot of issues regarding self-image that can lead to depression, suicide, and drug use. the need for parental supervision should be critical. >> why the u.s. surgeon general says kids should be at least 16 years old before they can use social media. currently they are around 13, but really no meaningful enforcement of that age, and that is subject to a piece of legislation now before congress. some lawmakers want to make it unlawful for social media companies to give access to teens under the age of 16. sandra, i reached out, no comment back. >> sandra: if the kid has a phone ...

Skyrocket. alongside being a young woman, i felt my self-image deteriorate as i began to develop harmful eating habits. all of this is not an isolated incident, laura. i being the log off executive director have heard countless stories from young people, how they incurred the harms from social media. unable to largely unplug because of addictive algorithmic systems in place that prioritize maximizing profit over user well being. what we're risks here, laura, is a generation of young people who are unable to make decisions and whose decisions are made by big tech if we don't take societal, gove...

I just needed someone to come up to me and give me a hug and say, i care about you, kaitlyn, and everything's going to be okay. >> anthony: i'll tell you something really shameful about myself. the first time i shot up, i looked at myself in the mirror with a big grin. something was missing in me, whether it was a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw. i came up with a stable family in the suburbs. i had a lot of advantages. there was some dark genie inside me that i very much hesitate to call a disease that led me to dope. i didn't have anyone else who could have talked me out...

Time. do you think it's more of a concern about legal exposure or more he just didn't want people to know how much or little he had? >> well, we all know that his ego depends on his wealth. so it's a story i've told before that in the mid 2010s, he gave a deposition where he claimed that his net worth went up and down depending on his mood. so if he felt good when he got up in the morning, his net worth was $3 billion more. now that was a ridiculous statement, but i think applied to his self-image, it explains a lot. so that's a big part of it. but he's also exposed interestingly enough with t...