Be yourself and not who you wish you were. I think that's the problem nowadays. With social media around, you have people able to create and live through their alterego and even go as far as to really make something that ain't real or true become real or true if the right amount of followers and people pay attention.
One thing I learned is that you get to know who you really are when you can't control shyt. I notice that with some social media users, they try to control the outcome or situations to seem a certain way so they can run on Facebook or instagram, to say a certain thing. Like they are doing things for social media Challenge yourself to put yourself in a setting or around people you aren't familiar with where you can't control the outcome or manipulate shyt to discover yourself and pay attention to yourself. This is why I ask certain people to do certain things so I can see who they are if i think they aren't being true about themselves. It's real easy to portray a certain image of what you think you are if you are in familiar territory. It's different when you are elsewhere.
I think the reason why people in my generation are depressed or anxious nowadays is that they are afraid of people finding out about them because they may see things that may not be likeable to other people. It's like the nerd who tries so hard to be this but they're a nerd. Nothing wrong with being a nerd.