.As an adolescent working as a cashier at Aim at during heavy traffic, Cindy Portillo will have a hard time to see her breath as her hands became moist and also her soul raced. Back then, she can not call what was actually taking place: an anxiety-induced panic attack. It was just at 21, after years of sensation in this manner and doing her own research that a medical professional diagnosed her along with stress disorder. "I think that I am actually the only one in my loved ones who has ever experienced stress and anxiety," Portillo tells Refinery29 Somos. "Within my family members, they didn't actually understand how to help me, besides informing me that I needed to head to parish extra, or receive closer to The lord which will help. But it failed to. I only needed to have additional support.".