My Garmin tells me I’m stressed all the time

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I really don’t feel particularly stressed. Obviously there are periods throughout the day, at work or driving on a busy road maybe, but my night time readings are abysmal.
I feel that I’ve had a great sleep but the silly watch tells me I haven’t because my stress levels are too high.
Has anyone else had this before I just take it off at night?

How long have you had it for? When I first got mine it took a few weeks to stop saying I was stressed all the time, especially at night. I guess it just has to get used to you. Mine now says I’m stressed whenever I’m coming down with a cold.

Have you had any alcohol that evening? Mine registers me as stressed after a glass of wine. Something about increased heart rate?

i have cut down massively because of it

You can turn off the notifications so it doesn't tell you such things.

The stress is based off heart rate variability, and since wrist-based heart rate sensors are not particular accurate I would not give it much thought. It's much more useful to look at overall trends on the app e.g. over a period of a week or a month. You can use that and base heart rate for tracking things like illness or pregnancy.

In all seriousness, why are you monitoring yourself while sleeping, what are you hoping to learn?

This obsession with constant monitoring is not healthy.

I signed up for a sleep app for a bit but got fed up of being told I'd slept terribly, and needed to pay for the enhanced app, when I had slept OK and felt fine. It was just an advert.

I came to the conclusion that my HRV works opposite to how it should because mine shows my high stress peaking during my yoga practice (??) and fine during a high stress meeting. I ignore.

@Parisj yes I always get told I'm stressed during yoga too!

There have been reports that they are not accurate and shouldn’t be relied on. I guess being told you’re stressed would implant a seed of stress, no?

I think HRV as a marker is a lot more individual and complex and watches are using it as a blunt tool only

I find things like this anxiety producing. I'd be checking every morning to see how much sleep I'd had and if it was a bad score I would worry how I'd cope all day. Now I don't track and just go on how I feel. Much better for my anxiety

I wish these watches wouldn't call it stress. It is measured by heart rate variability, as a PP said. So it is measuring supposedly how well your body/heart is able to react to stuff

Sounds ridiculous and something that would actually cause me stress.

The latest Apple watch advert is really creepy.

Thank you, looks like it’s not just me.
Ive had it about 6 months. Body battery just don’t seem reliable and the pulse ox is inaccurate
Still, I do enjoy using it as a fitness tracker.