.As a young adult functioning as a cashier at Intended during rush hour, Cindy Portillo would certainly struggle to see her breath as her hands ended up being sweaty as well as her center raced. Back then, she could possibly certainly not name what was happening: an anxiety-induced anxiety attack. It was actually simply at 21, after years of sensation through this and performing her very own study that a doctor diagnosed her with anxiety problem. "I believe that I'm the just one in my family members who has ever experienced stress," Portillo tells Refinery29 Somos. "Within my loved ones, they failed to actually recognize how to aid me, besides telling me that I required to visit church a lot more, or even obtain closer to The lord which would help. Yet it really did not. I simply needed additional help.".