.As a teen working as a cashier at Intended during rush hour, Cindy Portillo would certainly battle to catch her breath as her hands became moist and her heart raced. At the time, she might not call what was actually happening: an anxiety-induced panic attack. It was actually simply at 21, after years of emotion in this manner as well as performing her personal research that a physician detected her along with stress disorder. "I feel like I'm the only one in my family members that has ever before experienced stress and anxiety," Portillo says to Refinery29 Somos. "Within my family, they really did not actually recognize exactly how to aid me, besides telling me that I needed to visit parish more, or even get closer to God and also would aid. However it failed to. I only needed more assistance.".