.As a teenager functioning as a cashier at Aim at during the course of rush hour, Cindy Portillo will have a hard time to catch her breath as her hands became perspiring and her heart competed. During the time, she might certainly not name what was actually taking place: an anxiety-induced panic attack. It was actually merely at 21, after years of feeling by doing this and doing her own analysis that a physician identified her along with stress disorder. "I seem like I am actually the just one in my loved ones that has ever experienced stress," Portillo tells Refinery29 Somos. "Within my family, they really did not actually recognize how to aid me, besides informing me that I needed to head to chapel extra, or even receive closer to God which would certainly assist. But it failed to. I just needed even more support.".