.As a teenager working as a cashier at Intended throughout rush hour, Cindy Portillo will struggle to see her breathing spell as her hands became sweating as well as her heart raced. At the time, she could possibly not call what was actually happening: an anxiety-induced anxiety attack. It was just at 21, after years of feeling by doing this and doing her personal analysis that a doctor diagnosed her with stress and anxiety ailment. "I think that I'm the a single in my household that has actually ever experienced stress and anxiety," Portillo tells Refinery29 Somos. "Within my loved ones, they really did not really understand just how to help me, besides telling me that I required to visit church a lot more, or obtain closer to God and that will help. However it didn't. I only needed additional assistance.".