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Reply to ""call of the void" phenomenon/sudden fear of driving over bridges - how do you talk yourself down?"
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[quote=Anonymous]I have a fear or heights and driving across bridges is really hard for me. I have had to drive across the Bay Bridge 9 times in the past 2 months for work and it has gotten a bit easier each time. The things I have done to make it across are: -listen to an audio book so I have something to focus my distracted mind on -follow a truck. I pull over before the bridge and time my reentry to the road so that I am behind a large truck. Then I focus my driving on staying a safe distance behind the truck and not looking out at the wide expanse of the view On one trip I had a passenger and that worked too because I could talk to her. On another trip and I was the passenger. This turned out to be worse because then I had no control and my thoughts switched to "what if he just drives off the side of the bridge?" Crossing the bridge multiple times really has been the best thing to make it easier.[/quote]
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