agita \AJ-i-tuh, noun:

1. Agitation; anxiety.
2. Heartburn; indigestion.

And my being named after the patron saint of love, St. Valentine, when I’ve had nothing but agita in romance just makes it more painfully ironic.
— Rosanna Chiofalo, Bellla Fortuna

I’m eighty-two years old and I don’t need this agita in my life!
— Rita Lakin, Getting Old Is Murder

Agita was coined in America in the 1980s. It comes from the Italian word agitare meaning “to bother.”