Using Cardiac Monitoring as a Stress Detector for Mental Health

Using Cardiac Monitoring as a Stress Detector for Mental Health Mental health conditions such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), eating disorders, and stress can be deeply personal, varying from patient to patient, which makes finding a way to objectively measure them difficult. Symptoms tend to fluctuate from day to day, and sometimes even hour to hour. Identifying a predictable pattern is difficult, and while periodic clinical assessments and self-reported scales offer valuable insights, they fail to capture the entirety of a patient’s experience the way continuous monitor