.As a teenager operating as a cashier at Aim at during the course of rush hour, Cindy Portillo would certainly strain to catch her breath as her hands came to be moist and also her soul dashed. Back then, she could not call what was occurring: an anxiety-induced panic attack. It was just at 21, after years of feeling this way and performing her personal research study that a physician diagnosed her with stress disorder. "I think that I am actually the only one in my family members who has ever experienced stress," Portillo tells Refinery29 Somos. "Within my family members, they failed to truly understand exactly how to aid me, besides informing me that I needed to visit parish more, or even obtain closer to The lord which will help. Yet it failed to. I merely needed to have more support.".