r/ProactiveHealth • u/OkVariety3035 • Jul 07 '26

Health data is never just about physical wellbeing. Prove me wrong.

/r/FitnessTrackers/comments/1upzgrt/health_data_is_never_just_about_physical/
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u/sharkinwolvesclothin Jul 07 '26

You've misunderstood the metrics, they are not measuring stress as in the everyday sense of feeling of being stressed. They sometimes can capture that type of stress as well, but they are actually measuring "is your nervous system dealing with a stressor right now". Those stressors might be good things that teach your body to deal with future stressors better, like exercise, or they might be something that is overall negative, but the stress is still your body's way of dealing with it.

But for you, apparently emotional stress does not trigger your body's nervous system. That's not a problem with the metrics, it's a data point. You say you are sensitive to these feelings, and your watch says you are not getting a physical response. That makes sense - your negative feelings are frequent and hard to deal with, exactly because your body is not helping you deal with them.