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Leading British psychiatrists say, you will never understand the risks and benefits of the use of Social Media On Children 's Mental Health , unless the company handed over their data to researchers.

- Tech-companies must be made to share data, and to pay to the Fund a tax, to the important research, they say.

There is increasing evidence that use of The Internet in Mental Health , but the research harm is still missing, it adds.

But the civil rights group said children should not be treated "like Lab Rats ".

An independent regulatory authority for online security is planned by the government.

The Report by The Royal College of psychiatrists, calls for the regulatory authority to require Social Media companies to data exchange, such as children and Young People , with the likes of Instagram, Facebook and Twitter - just how much time you spend online.

The data collected would be anonymous, The Report says.

Molly Russell died in the year 2017, after he content about suicide on Social Media

for his daughter, Molly to her life at the age of 14, the carrier of the calls.

The types of images of his daughter saw on Social Media before she died, including those who suggest that depression "is bound to enjoy to the suicide lead" and "normalization of a dark, gloomy world," the children "in full," he told BBC Radio 4 .

"If you begin to use these pictures on The Internet , the algorithms are there, begin to press more and more of the images and content to you, and you to connect with other people in a similar, desperate place," he said in a separate interview.

Mr. Russell said, without research using data from Social Media companies, "we will never know, how content will lead Our Children and youth to self-injury, or, in The Most tragic cases, take their own lives".

There are many positives to children using technology, such as online support, instant communication with friends, and access to information, but the time before the screen can also tell you the potentially harmful to health, a psychiatrist.

For example, the online content can be very stressful and the children may be addicted to screens at the expense of sleep, exercise and time with family.

the research was still fragmented, but the first notes of "negative physical, Mental Health and cognitive associations," required, more interdisciplinary, nationally-funded research, The Report said.

Most of the Social Media platforms to tell the user must be at least 13 years old to have an account, but the research has suggested.

In the year 2019, the BBC launched an app and website created, to help Young People to "be The Boss of your online life".

"Lechmere Toxic content,"

Sarah, who has struggled with eating disorders, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, Social Media posts led them to pro-anorexia Websites gave you "tips" on how you are hurting yourself.

The pages of "many different methods can give people ideas," She Said .

She Said , Instagram and other Social Media sites have made it "extremely difficult to avoid" "toxic content".

report co-author Dr Bernadka Dubicka, the chairs of The Child and adolescent psychiatry faculty at The Royal College of psychiatrists, said she was to see a growing number of children, self-harm and attempt suicide as a result of their use of Social Media and online discussions.

She Said Today's programme was affected by the research "" by the lack of access to Social Media data, leading to "double standards" as Young People are protected, the online compared to offline.

Dr. Dubicka also as a tax on social-Media companies, "in proportion to their global revenues" to pay for the research.

privacy "should have said the priority'

Civil rights group, Big Brother Watch,,, it has the importance of research on the impact of Social Media , but the need to decide the user "who is entitled to what data you give away, who and for what purposes".

The Campaign group's director, Silkie Carlo, said Young People should "autonomy" on Social Media ", without feeling like Lab Rats ".

Cited in 2014, and added: "In a time when data and privacy, the rights of significant threats online and trust is low, the user-recognized control should be considered a priority. "

The government has already said it will create an independent regulatory authority for online security from April, known as the.

The controller will be able to require the company, writing reports, and said to think about how you protect people online, a spokesman.

The reports will then be made public so that parents and children "can be added to make informed decisions about their internet use", of the speaker.

There are also plans in place.

Tech UK, which represents technology companies, said the data, in isolation "is rarely the full picture".

If you are already affected or the help and support available.

What is the advice to the parents?

For children under the age of one year:

For two - to five-year-olds:

For five - to 11-year-olds:

For 11 - to 16-year-olds:

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Marjorie Wallace , chief executive of Mental Health charity Sane, said it was "shocking", so little had been done, the protection of vulnerable Young People .

"It has an exponential increase in the number of people who contact our Hotline in the last few years, have self harmed, now with 70% of our callers, some said directly with the 24-7 pressure of Social Media ," She Said .

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