this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024
106 points (94.2% liked)
Technology
59179 readers
2390 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Seems to me that these people are being conscious about their health, and that's somehow a bad thing.
There's consciousness, and then there's anxiety inducing obsessive symptom checking. Which may do more harm than good given these are cardiac patients.
Everything in moderation.
Surely we van look at apps that allow more informed data but without the anxiety. Like, here's your data, this is less frequent than average. Or, here is your data, its the same as before. Or here is your data, its slightly different again, so we've already notifies your doctor, but usually this is nothing to be concerned about. Etc.
Lots of patients with other conditions have yo do similar, like diabetics monitoring sugar levels. Or asthmatics who can induce attacks by getting stressed about attacks.
We could build in some mindfulness exercises which help with anxiety. I'd say overall, its better.
It's more that these people are addicted to knowing if they are dying or not. Compulsively overchecking to the point of detriment.
It may also be when they were asked. I monitor whatever my watch allows, and plan to base future Watch decisions mostly on new health monitoring.
With each new capability, I obsess about it for a while until it fades into the background. Now I check them all once in a while but the bad part is I don’t follow them closely enough to improve my well-being. There’s a balance somewhere between my tendencies and people who don’t stop