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Your Apple Watch is Ruining Your Mental Health
The pitfalls of too much information
Perfection. Those of us who attempt to have everything in order all the time are particularly susceptible to overdoing it.
What is “it?” It’s everything, but especially aspects of our lives that are tracked, logged, or monitored. By 2017, Americans used some form of wearable technology at least a once per month, and that number increased to . Is that a good thing?
What’s the Upside?
As a person somewhat obsessed with progress, the idea of an Apple Watch or Fitbit made absolute sense to me and seemed to fill an obvious void in the marketplace that I wish I had thought of first.
Continuous tracking of various health aspects including activity levels, sleep patterns, and even now heart health monitoring via EKGs seemed like a scene pulled straight from a sci-fi movie. Until the recent block by courts, Apple was preparing to sell their new watch with blood oxygen monitoring, too, but this feature was found to .
The ban on the sale of the new watch was lifted temporarily to allow sale without this feature, but it is now back in place. We will see…
