.As a teenager operating as a cashier at Target during the course of rush hour, Cindy Portillo would struggle to see her breathing spell as her hands came to be sweaty and also her heart raced. At the moment, she can not name what was happening: an anxiety-induced panic attack. It was actually only at 21, after years of emotion by doing this and also performing her own analysis that a medical professional identified her with stress problem. "I think that I am actually the a single in my family that has actually ever before experienced anxiety," Portillo says to Refinery29 Somos. "Within my family, they failed to actually understand just how to help me, besides telling me that I needed to have to go to parish even more, or even acquire closer to The lord and also would certainly help. Yet it failed to. I only required additional help.".