It’s sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

Seyfried frames anxiety not as a dramatic crisis but as a quiet, chronic limiter of ordinary pleasure. The sadness she names comes from the gap between what she believes she “should” be able to enjoy at her age—stability, success, freedom—and what her internal state allows. The line also captures a common feature of anxiety: anticipatory worry and self-monitoring that dulls experience in the moment. By speaking in plain, self-critical terms (“as much as I should”), she highlights how mental health struggles can be compounded by social expectations about maturity and gratitude, turning anxiety into both a symptom and a source of guilt.