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If you’re having a hard time falling asleep, that sleep tracker on your wrist might be to blame.

And there’s a name for this new kind of insomnia of the digital age: orthosomnia.

It’s “when you just really become fixated on having this perfect sleep via tracker,” said Seema Khosla, medical director at the North Dakota Center for Sleep. “And then you start worrying about it, and you wind up giving yourself insomnia.”

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