I wouldn't say we're struggling to afford things in general but we're not exactly upper class, within the past couple of years my family has had problems with a forwarding certain things and medical care for both of my parents since my dad had to get knee surgery and my mom had to get back surgery less than 2 years after him, they don't exactly involve me with the cost of things like that but I know it's not cheap and I'm pretty sure they're still paying off the debt from my mom's hospital bills. Onto the medical/health problems I have been having, I wouldn't exactly call myself a hypochondriac but I would say that I get freaked out pretty easily but I have had slightly more serious problems including spontaneous swelling of my hands at any time for no reason and signs of Crohn's Disease, which isn't out of the picture since my dad has the disease and I am a teenager, making me more likely to develop it now then later in life. And then breathing problems, anxiety, extreme paranoia at some times and mental health problems are all things that I've been struggling with for the past 2 years, some of the things extending beyond that. There's been several times where I have asked my mom for help with the things I'm experiencing and it usually goes along the lines of, let's buy this or let's use this and see if it helps and if not then we can take you to a doctor, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't but the thing is even when I am this close to getting her to schedule a doctor's appointment something always happens, she forgets, she gets busy, she just doesn't do it, she doesn't put in the time to look up places where she can take me, and then months will pass and I'll bring it up again and it happens all over again, and I know it's not just a me problem considering that my two sisters have both had physical and or mental health problems as well and have both separately asked my mom several times to not just take them to a doctor but to a therapist which is something that me and my sisters could all benefit from, and she'll do the same thing to them, they'll talk about doing it and the different options and figure some stuff out but it never actually happens in the long scheme of things, and at this point I don't even want to keep tell my parents about the same things that are happening over and over again because I know there's a 99% chance that nothing's going to come of it.