.As a teenager operating as a cashier at Target during the course of heavy traffic, Cindy Portillo would certainly battle to catch her breathing spell as her hands came to be perspiring and also her heart raced. At that time, she could possibly certainly not call what was taking place: an anxiety-induced anxiety attack. It was actually just at 21, after years of emotion this way and also performing her personal investigation that a medical professional diagnosed her along with anxiousness condition. "I think that I am actually the just one in my household who has ever before experienced stress and anxiety," Portillo tells Refinery29 Somos. "Within my family members, they didn't really know how to help me, besides telling me that I required to head to parish extra, or even acquire closer to God and also would certainly assist. Yet it didn't. I simply required more assistance.".