Good stuff. Coincidentally I have been desultorily looking for a good alternative to “hysterical” (in the actually-nothing-to-do-with-wombs-whatsoever sense). “Overwrought” fits well enough many cases, but it lacks the require punchiness in something like “the sack of the Lindisfarne monastery in northeastern England in 793, to which the English reaction was nothing short of hysterical”.