.As a teenager functioning as a cashier at Aim at in the course of heavy traffic, Cindy Portillo would certainly struggle to find her breath as her palms became perspiring as well as her center dashed. Back then, she might certainly not call what was happening: an anxiety-induced panic attack. It was actually simply at 21, after years of emotion this way and also doing her very own analysis that a medical professional identified her along with stress and anxiety disorder. "I think that I am actually the only one in my loved ones who has ever experienced anxiety," Portillo informs Refinery29 Somos. "Within my family, they didn't really understand just how to assist me, besides telling me that I required to visit chapel more, or acquire closer to The lord which would certainly assist. Yet it didn't. I simply needed more assistance.".