Rumor Claims watchOS 7 Will Have 'Mental Health Capabilities' to Detect Panic Attacks

[im_to_hyper]

Dumbest idea ever.

I’ve lived with chronic anxiety and panic disorder for 20 years and the LAST thing I need to think about ALL DAY is looking to see if I’m gonna have a panic attack.

The feature isn’t for you. The feature is for people like my 35 year old roommate who thought he was having a heart attack, but his Watch 4 only showed a high heart rate, nothing else. If the watch instead could have told him he was having a panic attack, and then help him with deep breathing, it could have saved him the cost of an emergency room visit

 

[pdaholic]

I mean do you normally piss your pants on a plane without a panic attack? Pissing pants is usually a symptom of something. Unless you were just cold and wanted some warmth

Well, I usually only piss my pants on airplanes. And hockey games. But I thought the latter was due to my friends giving me too much alcohol. Or maybe it’s due to a panic attack. Only Apple Watch will know...

 

[anek007]

I get panic attacks when I see my watch has low battery because I forgot to charge it last night.

 

[Ankaa]

The amount of people in the comments speaking about "panic attacks" (even making fun of them) without obviously knowing what an actual panic attack is is too. damn. high.

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Dumbest idea ever.

I’ve lived with chronic anxiety and panic disorder for 20 years and the LAST thing I need to think about ALL DAY is looking to see if I’m gonna have a panic attack.

You have it backwards.

You don't look all day whether you have one. Your watch INFORMS you when you're about to get one.

People don't seem to know there are actual service dogs trained to do specifically that! If you know you're about to have a panic attack, you can try beating it with coping mechanisms....
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The feature isn’t for you. The feature is for people like my 35 year old roommate who thought he was having a heart attack, but his Watch 4 only showed a high heart rate, nothing else. If the watch instead could have told him he was having a panic attack, and then help him with deep breathing, it could have saved him the cost of an emergency room visit

THIS!

 

[JosephAW]

It would be better to detect an oncoming seizure.

So now we have false fall detection false heart rate warnings and now false panic warnings.

 

[B4U]

And it is like the daily coaching cannot be customized is not annoying enough?

 

[sanook997]

I only had a couple episodes of what might have been the beginning of a panic attack. This was at very deep depths scuba diving many years ago. I was able to work it out a remain calm, learn from the experience but I really did not need a watch to tell me what was happening, it’s very apparent.

My daughter gets frequent panic attacks and she can tell when their starting as well...So I’m curious why this feature is necessary for most of us that know what the onset looks like.

I’m waiting for the O2 sensor, all over it for high altitude hiking.

 

[Professor Rucy]

You’re going to need this if you’re checking your phone all the time for COVID exposure.

 

[Ankaa]

So I’m curious why this feature is necessary for most of us that know what the onset looks like.

A panic attack can represent in many many different ways. It can mimic things like heart attacks and people end up in the ER because of that.

Knowing you're NOT having a heart attack? Majorly important.

And I would challenge you on the claim that many if not most people with panic attacks know what the onset looks like. That might be the case for you and your daughter, but certainly is not the case for many many people.

 

[0924487]

I mean, it's really not difficult to detect.

 

[rp2011]

Imagine wearing it and it starts blinking and beeping with a message “”You’re Crazy!”

 

[Ankaa]

For May being Mental Health Awareness Month, there sure are a lot of inappropriate comments here... (but hey, everyone thinks they're so smug and smart and funny, so it's cool)

 

[Brien]

Apple has been using a plethysmograph to detect heart rate since series 0 on the Apple watch. This can technically measure oxygen level as well. This means that this feature can likely come to all watches.

To quote iFixit:
Apple’s heart rate monitor is actually a plethysmograph that looks and acts like a pulse oximeter, but Apple isn’t claiming it can measure your blood oxygen level.

Source: https://www.ifixit.com/News/7158/apple-watch-teardown-2

I’d love if at least S4/5 got it, if only so I don’t have to buy another Hermes watch so soon...

 

[827538]

Something like this combined with a glucose monitor would make the Apple Watch almost invaluable as a health monitoring device, even if you aren’t into wearing watches.

 

[Bluetoot-]

As someone who has panic attacks from time to time, I’m just not sure what benefit this would have for me.

 

[Saludos]

AW: “hey, you’re about to have a panic attack”
ME: “oh Thanks. I feel much better now”

 

[Yr Blues]

Apple is getting too invasive. Abandon ship ASAP.

 

[ghanwani]

Apple is getting too invasive. Abandon ship ASAP.

You have a choice of two ships -- the invasive one and the more invasive one.

 

[Yr Blues]

You have a choice of two ships -- the invasive one and the more invasive one.

People still think I'm crazy for putting tape on the cameras.

 

[ghanwani]

People still think I'm crazy for putting tape on the cameras.

I think it's crazy too, you should use something that looks a little better not just cheap tape. haha

 

[Jury]

The watchOS 7 is likely to have some redesign in home screen as well.

 

[BvizioN]

I’m having a panic attack! What do I do?? Ahhhh!!

Sit down. Take a deep breaths. Relax.
On a side note, reading comments is quite fascinating how ready people are for the memes before feature/product is even out.

 

[Ghost31]

People still think I'm crazy for putting tape on the cameras.

I think you are. Really. Read a book by Marc Goodman called “future crimes” and you’ll see how pointless it is to do that. If a hacker (or the government) wants to get into your business, tape on a camera isn’t gonna do anything.

I mean crap...the iPhone has what. 4 cameras on it now? Do you put tape on all of them? And then disconnect the microphone? Remember it’s not just them seeing you. Hearing you and recording you is just as good to them. What about grocery cards? Points? Credit cards? There was a huge hack at target (and Safeway among others) that compromised a ton of personal information.

unless you live in a faraday cage in the woods with no connection to people what so ever, yeah. Tape on your camera is security theater. It’s to make you feel better but doesn’t do a damn thing

 

[unobtainium]

They should just call it for what it is: A liberal detector😉

Now if only it could detect senility and low IQ, the other side of the political spectrum would be covered too.

 

[Rainshadow]

Dumbest idea ever.

I’ve lived with chronic anxiety and panic disorder for 20 years and the LAST thing I need to think about ALL DAY is looking to see if I’m gonna have a panic attack.

Exactly! Just like how I have to constantly think about having a heart attack now that there is a heart monitor on my watch s/