CNBC co-anchor of Squawk Box Becky Quick has broken her silence on her daughter Kaylie's health struggles. The longtime co-anchor, 53, kept her daughter's diagnosis under wraps for years. Per People Magazine, Kaylie, who is 9 years old, suffers from a SYNGAP1 diagnosis. According to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, it is a rare genetic disorder that leads to a range of neurodevelopmental disorders. The diagnosis has no cure and entails round-the-clock care. "I would say that it was probably around 8 months when I realized she wasn't hitting her milestones," Quick told the outlet. "Sometimes her eyes would cross. You just kind of know as a mom that there's something going on." Becky Quick recalls having to go in to work after learning of her daughter's rare disease: Becky Quick recalled in her conversation with People Magazine the first time fears that her daughter was not hitting her developmental milestones crept in. She took Kaylie to her pediatrician, who suggested that they run tests. "We started working with therapists immediately," Quick said. "[They] helped Kaylie with her ability to roll over, with getting fluid motions, with eventually being able to walk and lots of things. But we also noticed some other things that were going on." Becky Quick then took her child to a neurologist, who did an EEG study. It was then that they noticed Kaylie was suffering from subclinical seizures, which are invisible to the naked eye. A genetic test was run, which confirmed that she had SYNGAP1."It was de novo, a genetic disease, which means that basically one letter in her DNA was off at birth, and it didn't come from either me or my husband," explains Quick. "It just happens sometimes at conception." Becky Quick admitted that she found the news "terrifying" and said she didn't know much about it. However, she felt relieved for knowing what was going on. "It was scary. I think it's kind of universal from other parents I've talked to, either who have kids with this disease or other diseases. You end up kind of blaming yourself," says Quick. "You sort of think, 'Was it because I was drinking decaf coffee when I was pregnant? Is it because I kept coloring my hair?' I had one doctor who told me, 'Well, maybe she's not going to be a Fortune 500 CEO, but she might go to college,' " she shares. "I remember just being so mad at him at that point for writing off her prospects so early. But as you go through it, you're kind of hoping and praying that she'll just overcome it and the therapies will work and she'll be back on a normal track."She said that she received the news on a weekend, but come Monday, she had to go back in to work: "It's something you're dealing with all the time, but it's not something you can always share," says Becky Quick. "And that's me being on TV, I wasn't sharing it, but it's a story I hear from a lot of other parents who are walking this same path. It's hard to know who to talk to and who to lean on because it's just a path you're waling that you feel so alone on, and you feel like nobody else understands."CNBC has since launched an initiative called CNBC Cures, which aims to raise awareness for the 30 million Americans dealing with rare ailments. According to Becky Quick, this effort is to bring about lasting change: "I want people to understand and raise awareness of people like our kids that may look a little differently or act a little differently, but they're just kids too," says Quick. "And they want to be part of society, and they want to be out in the community too." Stay tuned to SoapCentral for more.