.As a teenager functioning as a cashier at Target in the course of heavy traffic, Cindy Portillo would strain to see her breath as her hands became perspiring and her heart competed. During the time, she can not name what was actually taking place: an anxiety-induced panic attack. It was actually only at 21, after years of feeling through this and doing her very own investigation that a doctor diagnosed her with stress and anxiety disorder. "I think that I am actually the only one in my household who has actually ever experienced anxiousness," Portillo tells Refinery29 Somos. "Within my family, they failed to definitely recognize exactly how to assist me, besides telling me that I required to visit chapel even more, or even acquire closer to The lord which will assist. But it really did not. I only required additional support.".