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Originally Posted by KC911

Over the past few years, bridges have begun to really bother me .... the higher, longer ones that I used to one-hand-on-the-wheel, neck straining to see the boats, etc. are now a white knuckle drive across staring at the road ahead. They have a rescue truck that retrieves about one "freeze up" each day over Lake Ponchartrain .... I might put the number in my cell phone if I go back to 'Nawlins .

Originally Posted by gacook

I've developed a little bit of anxiety on long/high bridges the past couple years. Not sure where that came from, as it just popped up.

My parents lived across a big bridge from Pensacola, FL for many years. At some point, my mom developed a crippling fear of driving over them to the point that she'd try to do it, but always end up stopping before the bridge to make my dad do the drive. Before my dad died, he was in a hospital in P'cola, and she had to drive back and forth many times over the course of a month or so. I was only able to be there with her for about a week of that time. Because she HAD to make the drive, she did. THere were two bridges, and she'd drive a bit out of her way to use the smaller of the two, but she managed. I think she even mostly overcame it by forcing herself to make the drive.