How Oura Rings and Apple Watches Affect Our Mental Health

It’s become a competition.

Every morning my husband and I wake up and compare our sleep scores: his from a Samsung watch and mine from an Oura Ring 4. We either congratulate whichever one of us performed “best” that night, or we curse our choice to stay up late binge-watching Netflix.

I’d asked for an Oura for my 36th birthday in October. I was starting to worry more about my health and thought a wearable device would motivate me to get more exercise and sleep after a decade starting work at 4 a.m. in a high-stress TV newsroom.

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