Orthosomnia from Tracking

Orthosomnia is sleep loss driven by anxiety about sleep data—lying awake worrying that the score will be bad, then feeling worse when the app confirms it. Wearable sleep staging is an estimate with meaningful error against lab polysomnography, so treating each night as a diagnosis turns a rough gauge into a stressor.

If checking the score raises your stress before breakfast, review weekly averages instead of nightly results, or take a two-week tracking break and judge sleep by daytime energy. The behavior matters more than the dashboard.