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.
35 year old Lucy needs to have her blood taken. She is so distraught by this that she must mentally prepare herself for it as well as take short-acting sedatives. What does Lucy seem to be suffering from?
