This scenario — or some version of it — has become common enough that sleep researchers now have a clinical term for it. And a significant number of those people are being made measurably more anxious by the devices they bought to improve their health. Wearables put health data in front of us constantly. The Banner Health summary of this phenomenon is precise: wearable-induced health anxiety is anxiety or excessive worry about your health that is triggered or made worse by data from wearable health devices. Linda Stanek, a family medicine specialist with Banner Health, makes the distinction clearly: “Wearables improve health mostly through motivation, not diagnosis.