Fortunately, the fear of bridges is relatively rare. However, that doesn’t particularly help if you are unfortunate enough to have a phobia of bridges.
So apart from getting involved in long and arduous journeys to avoid bridges what are your other options if you truly are afraid of bridges?
Start by going back in your mind to work out when you first became afraid of bridges. There may have been an incident in your life or you might have seen something on television that triggered some part of your mind to cause you to develop this fear.
Whatever the event is, it affected you deeply enough to trigger your mind into wanting to protect you every time you encounter a bridge.
In an evolutionary sense, that’s great! It’s how we evolved as a species and learned to avoid things that were dangerous to us. But bridges are a necessary part of our modern life. It’s a lot quicker to cross the river using a bridge than it is to wait for a ferry to arrive, if one even exists on the stretch of water that you want to cross.
Sometimes it’s possible to plan your journey so that you can avoid bridges, but other times the detour is sufficiently long for it to be a really major problem to plan any route whatsoever that doesn’t involve crossing a bridge.
Another option is to seek help. There are hypnosis tracks available on the Internet you can download and listen to and these will often be all you need to remove your fear of bridges completely.