Perhaps you're wrong in expecting the term "paranoia" to be exclusive to some clinical definition that you happened to be seeking at that time. I don't see how

Perhaps you're wrong in expecting the term "paranoia" to be exclusive to some clinical definition that you happened to be seeking at that time. I don't see how stories sharing some common structure (what does that even mean? rise-and-fall combinations?) makes it impossible to become overloaded by them.