orthosomnia
English
Noun
orthosomnia (uncountable)
- An unhealthy obsession with achieving the correct amount and type of sleep.
- 2018 April, Linda Anticoli, Marco Basaldella, “Shut Up and Run: the Never-ending Quest for Social Fitness”, in WWW '18: Companion Proceedings of the The Web Conference:
- Orthosomnia is a psychological condition recently identified by Baron et al. [3], who analyzed the behavior of fitness trackers users who used these devices to track their sleep.
- 2018, Megan Roberts, Why Your Ketogenic Diet Isn't Working Part 2: Sleep and Circadian Rhythm:
- Orthosomnia, the “perfectionistic quest for the ideal sleep in order to optimize daytime function”, is sadly becoming more prevalent, arguably due to increased sleep tracker use [73].
- 2019, Captain Allison Brager, Meir Kryger, A New Approach: Integrating Sleep Science and Consumer Wearables to Improve Access and Drive Greater Engagement, page 10:
- In our view, this is an exercise of diminishing returns, and may actually impair quality of their sleep and cause orthosomnia, a condition where a person has a perfectionist quest to achieve perfect sleep. (Baron et al, 2017).
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