Could I have PPD?

My English is rather sloppy so if you find anything that I say hard to understand please let me know so I can reword it for better understanding .

I am not asking for a diagnosis, I would just like to know if it is possible that I may have paranoia or whether I am just worrying about something that everyone experiences.
Please note I am only 17 and male .

When I was around 13-16 During my school years my mum would give me a lift to school in the morning i had this feeling that she could read my mind so when ever I had a bad/dirty thought I would spend the rest of the journey trying to think of something clean while anxiously looking at my mum checking to see her response to tell if she could read my mind, never found out

At the same time period when my family would all go out so it was just me and the pets in the house ( one dog two cats) when I went to watch P*@& and while doing this my dog might walk in the same room or something ( The computer was in the living room and we had no living room door due to children always being round ) And when the dog did walk in I always had to tell it to get out because I had this feeling that my parents had put cameras in her eyes to spy on me while they where gone.

When I got my own computer in my room and I was spending some alone time while at the same time my uncle was round I also had a fear that he was on the living room computer hacking into mine and bringing up what I see on the living room computer so all of my family can watch and laugh at me.

Even now I feel that my life is just one big joke in a similar sense to the Trumen Show and that everything was staged to see my reactions and I expect to come home one day and have all of my friends jump out from behind the sofa and tell me that my life that my life was all a joke while laughing at my humiliated self.

Now this bit I am going to write about now is the one that really concerns me as it is one that I feel is going to put my friendship to the test. The person who I consider my closest friend who I will call A for the past couple of months has had a spinal problem where his spine is trapping his nerves ( I don't know what it is called) He has shown several symptoms of this where he would collapse lose control in his legs etc etc. Well yesterday he went into hospital for his surgery and I got a text from his phone saying that it was his dad speaking and that surgery had complications because the nerves got trapped and that he has been paralysed from the neck down and that he is going to have surgery again the next morning to untrap them. ( he has had the surgery and is now all fine and well)

Now the problem is that part of me doesn't believe that he had any problem with his back and he never had any surgery at all and that he has pretended to be his dad to send that text out to all of his friends and that he has just spent the last 4 months or so pretending to have this serious problem with his back to gain all of this attention from his friends and gain all of this symphony.
I also feel that this was also just a test set up by my friends to see how well I trust them/believe them and see how gullible I am.

Thank you for reading and once again I would just like to apologise for my lack of English as it hinders my ability to express my true emotions throughout this.


Edit* After writing this and seeing that it has several views makes me feel that my friends have seen it and that I have failed their test of trusting them and that they are going to dismiss me as their friend .

Yes you could have PPD. I'm no expert on any mental health or disorder, nor on what is "normal" but in my own experience I have never thought anyone was spying on me or that people were lying to me to test my gullibility.

You have an anonymous username and the details you have given are vague enough to apply to lots of people, so no-one you know in real life can know for sure that you posted here. All the threads here get many more views than posts, that's normal.

In my experience, i have such thoughts, but i don't usually act on them, i usually dismiss them or check if they are true.
Sometimes i think people can read my mind, even thought my logic screams this is absurd, i still swear in my mind at other people, as if they can hear it.
Once i stole a knife from a restaurant, when i got out of a social event to take a solitary walk, it was night and it is a solitary walk, not much people around, you never know who could try to surprise you. But i think that was normal? Later i got back to the social event, because nearby a car stopped, but no one came out for 1 minute. I couldn't stop looking at it, it felt that if i do, someone will come out exactly then.
By default i get many different paranoid thoughts all the time.

Your case sounds more extreme then mine, so i would think you might have PPD.

Ada wrote:I have never thought anyone was spying on me or that people were lying to me to test my gullibility.

I have... In basically every situation, I actually assume this is the case first, and only after observing evidence in the contrary I conclude it's not. It's funny how I used to think I had no paranoia at all. Well, maybe I really don't. Maybe a "paranoid stance" is more like it.