.As a teenager operating as a cashier at Target throughout rush hour, Cindy Portillo would certainly strain to find her breath as her hands came to be sweating and her heart raced. Back then, she might not call what was actually taking place: an anxiety-induced anxiety attack. It was just at 21, after years of feeling this way and doing her own research that a physician identified her with anxiety ailment. "I believe that I am actually the a single in my loved ones who has ever before experienced anxiousness," Portillo tells Refinery29 Somos. "Within my household, they really did not truly recognize how to aid me, besides telling me that I needed to have to go to church much more, or receive closer to God and that will help. But it didn't. I only needed to have additional support.".