# Orthosomnia: are some patients taking the quantified self too far?

Baron KG, Abbott S, Jao N, Manalo N, Mullen R · Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine 13(2):351–354 · 2017



## Key finding

Case series of people whose fixation on tracker data worsened their sleep — Galpin's health-anxiety warning has a name.



[Read the paper](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Orthosomnia:+are+some+patients+taking+the+quantified+self+too+far?)

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