Are there any studies that SUPPORT free will? Any research?

I remember back in highschool I was sitting in history class when my mind started drifting and I thought about how everything has a cause, and I wondered how I could possibly be making decisions if even the act of making a decision relies on unconscious processes. Instead of coming to the conclusion that free will doesn't exist, I figured I just didn't know enough, so I looked it up online to learn about how I could still have free will and found pretty much only the opposite: people concluding that I do not.

I remember it made me sick to my stomach and gave me existential dread and to this day that feeling creeps up any time I start to think about it for too long.

I do believe I have free will, but I also think that it's probably more likely that I only believe in it as a survival mechanism. I feel like if I become convinced that I don't the stress will be too much.

As an adult I've become convinced, mostly by myself, that free will exists with caveats. I have ADHD, generalized anxiety, PTSD caused by the suicide of a family member, etc. And these things influence a lot of who I am, and without them I would not be who I am. But to me, they only influence those things. Somehow, someway, I have some tiny say. Not a lot, but some. Things are presented to me and I evaluate the good and bad aspects of those things, and I pick the thing that I think is better, and all my experiences contribute to that.

So I guess I believe in some kind of free will where there's a tiny piece of me that's free and the rest is not.

But frankly, when researching this, I find almost study or scientific evidence supporting free will. Instead, I find a lot of evidence that there isn't, like studies showing that we can predict someone's choice before they do it. Today I watched Alex O'Connor talk to Hank Green about this, and they talked about some study where they didn't give information to the part of the brain responsible for consciousness, but gave information to another part. The example used was that your subconscious mind is told to get up and go to the table and get water, so you do. When asked why you did that, you respond that you were thirsty so you got water, even though you never actually made a decision, you just followed an instruction without even knowing it. This would suggest that you take actions and come up with a reason for it later.

So what, if any, scientific evidence exists to support free will? As I understand it, most philosophers do believe in free will—but why? Is it just vibes?

I'll admit I'm asking this because thinking about it today has caused me great anxiety. I completely lost my appetite to eat dinner because I'm so stressed out about it. I do believe that I have some level of free will regardless. I certainly feel like I do. But it would definitely help to have some science to back it up.