Orthosomnia

It feels with sleep where these wearables can make such a difference and provide awareness.

And suddenly people are in the conversation, but we don't want to go too far because we don't want to be obsessive and, you know, orthosomnia, etc., And then the tech, I think there's, I hope, excitement down the road where we'll be able to better distinguish some of these many sleep disorders that many people have no idea that they're running around with.

So really appreciate the work that you're doing in many aspects of sleep to make a difference for people.

So if people are wanting to then follow you, your work, the products that you mentioned, any ways for people to take action, how can they do that?

100%.

There's this new term now called orthosomnia.

Have you guys heard about it? No.

It's insomnia from staying awake and obsessing over your data.

And the worst part, There's a whole new area of sleep problems called orthosomnia.

And what is orthosomnia? And I've treated patients with this.

Orthosomnia is when you get so attached to your device, looking at your sleep numbers, and you wake up in the morning, you check, how long did I sleep? And how much stage three sleep did I get? And how much this? Which it doesn't really know.

And what's my sleep score? Which nobody even knows what a sleep score is because Apple calls it one thing and Garmin calls it one thing.

It's a proprietary

Now, terms can come from researchers trying to make sense of emerging behaviors.

Orthosomnia, for instance, happens when tracking your sleep actually disrupts your sleep.

Many other expressions like sad fishing or hyperempathy emerge collectively until everyone seems to understand a feeling that previously had no name.

Every year, the dictionaries race to catalog Internet-inspired emotional vocabulary like goblin mode, main character energy, brain rot.

Well, and I think it gets back to the point of the over-optimization as far as like people-- I saw this post by, was it the Scherzais? That, or like they, they said there's something called insomnia phobia now, where people will look at their sleep scores on their wearable-

... and they'll-- What's that?

It's called orthosomnia.