.As an adolescent operating as a cashier at Target throughout rush hour, Cindy Portillo would certainly battle to see her breath as her hands came to be sweating and also her center dashed. At the time, she could not name what was happening: an anxiety-induced anxiety attack. It was actually simply at 21, after years of sensation this way and also performing her own analysis that a medical professional diagnosed her with anxiousness disorder. "I think that I am actually the just one in my family members that has actually ever experienced anxiousness," Portillo says to Refinery29 Somos. "Within my family members, they failed to really know how to help me, besides informing me that I required to go to church much more, or even receive closer to God which will assist. However it failed to. I just required even more support.".