Extremely anxious Pastor hurried over, brought in help (8)
I believe the answer is:
paranoid
'help' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'extremely anxious pastor hurried over brought in' is the wordplay.
'extremely anxious pastor' becomes 'paid' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'hurried' becomes 'ran' (running is a kind of hurrying).
'over' becomes 'o' (cricket abbreviation).
'brought in' indicates putting letters inside.
'ran'+'o'='rano'
'paid' enclosing 'rano' is 'PARANOID'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for paranoid that I've seen before include "Suffering delusions; road pain (anag.)" , "one given to suspicion" , "Paid Nora to have delusions?" , "Irrationally obsessed by fear etc" , "Excessively suspicious" .)