Year-old lucy needs to have a blood sample taken. she is so distraught by this that she must mentally prepare herself for it as well as take a short-acting sedative. lucy seems to be suffering from a:

The correct answer is a phobia.

Explanation:

Phobia refers to an incapacitating and irresistible fear of a place, object, feeling, situation, or animal. They are more pronounced in comparison to fears. They originate when an individual exhibits an unrealistic or exaggerated feeling of danger regarding an object or a situation. A phobia is a kind of anxiety disorder, which makes a person to encounter with an irrational, extreme fear regarding a situation or object.

from my research i have to the conclusion that decomposers, such as fungi, bacteria and invertebrates, play a critical role in nutrient cycling and without them the earth's ecosystem may not support life as we know it. elements such as carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus exist in limited amounts on earth, although huge amounts of carbon are being released into the atmosphere from underground sources now by humans. it is still extremely important that other nutrients be retained by the process of re-use. decomposers are organisms that are able to chemically break down dead material and make these elements available for use by other organisms. without this breakdown of dead material, dead bodies would pile up. so decomposers also play a role in clean up also. without them, life might not continue as we know it and dead material would overwhelm the earth.