Smartwatches are good for physical health but probably bad for mental health, hint researchers

A study conducted by researchers revealed that people with heart ailments take their smartwatches so seriously that they rush to the clinics with stacks of papers with data from their smartwatches.

Do you take your smartwatch too seriously? If yes, you should stop doing that as you could harm your mental health. A 70-year-old woman was diagnosed with a heart condition that causes irregular heartbeats. Soon after discovering her heart ailment, the woman got diagnosed with another illness and this time it had nothing to do with the heart. The woman got bouts of anxiety which was reportedly triggered by her smartwatch. She got flustered by the repeated notifications about her increasing, decreasing heart rate. A study conducted by Lindsey Rosman, a professor at Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, revealed that the woman had performed 916 electrocardiograms (ECGs) over a 1-year period. The data was derived from her smartwatch. She believed that the smartwatch notifications about her heart beats were a sign of worsening cardiac function.