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19/01/2019 GMT

BBC World News - Online and Anxious: What's Up With Social Media Influencers?

With billions of us now broadcasting our lives online, is it good for our state of mind?

With billions of us now broadcasting our lives online, is it good for our state of mind? Our population reporter Stephanie Hegarty investigates.

Over the past year there's been a spate of social media influencers from all over the world talking about their mental health. These, mostly young people, who make a living from the internet have been increasingly talking about anxiety, burn-out and depression. With billions of us now broadcasting our lives online, is it good for our state of mind? Our population reporter Stephanie Hegarty went to meet some of these people who are posting about their mental health to find out why - and to see if there is anything that the rest of us can learn about what social media is doing to us.

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