[xkcd-sucks]

> 'Anxious' is more common now

Or 'having anxiety', which diminishes the subject's agency even more

[watwut]

People do not choose to have anxiety.

[xkcd-sucks]

I think the point is people embody or create anxiety, whether or not it is a choice. As an emotion the anxiety is inseparable from the person, a dead person cannot be anxious etc.

[kelseyfrog]

I can turn my anxiety on and off at will.