To cut a long story short, after Christmas my mum got diagnosed with depression and anxiety. The majority of her anxiety is unfortunately aimed towards me (F18) as she thinks I’m losing hair on one part of my head. I personally have not seen/ noticed a change in my hair but I hate seeing my mum worry so I went to the doctors. That wasn’t the end of it unfortunately, I’ve been to around 10 doctors appointments with all of them saying I don’t have an issue and that she shouldn’t worry about it. My most recent visit to the doctors proved helpful as the GP said he was going to send me to a dermatologist to help calm my mum as they specialise with skin. 

All was good until I had to book an appointment online and the earliest date they had was the 18th of April. My mum was upset with this for a while as she felt it was too far away but she came to terms with it and was feeling a lot better knowing that soon if she a specialist. Cut to today, I’ve had a letter come through the post saying the appointment has been cancelled and rescheduled for July. My mum is mortified and so am I. I thought this appointment was finally going to help my mum and try to make things go back to normal, but now I have more months of what feels like hell. 

Because of this cancellation my mum wants to take my privately as we’d be able to see a dermatologist a lot quicker. I don’t want to do this. I feel there is no issue with my hair and that going privately would just be a waste of money that we don’t easily have. So AITA for telling my mum I don’t want to go privately even though she’d be paying for it?