You are right, I meant paranoid.
>Btw, in this case it can’t be paranoia since the belief was not irrational - the author was being watched.
Yes, but I mean being overly cautious in the threat model. For example, birds may be watching through my window, it's true and I might catch a bird watching my house, but it's paranoid in the sense that it's too tight of a threat model.
I know analogies are not meant to be perfect, but birds don't mass watch, and don't systematically watch every of your moves neither.
That's what you think...
:-)
One never knows, that owl might be electric.