Cave dwellersThe virtual world helping people deal with real world fears Oct 23, 2007
"It's technically more interesting and I think also more important in some ways. You can have a fear of bridges - and so you don't walk across a bridge, but if you have a fear of people, life is very difficult". Click On can be heard on BBC Radio 4 at 16. (BBC News -- Technology)
Trouble over bridge waters Aug 15, 2007
ar more common would be if someone had a previous fear of bridges, or of driving in any way, or perhaps even a panic disorder, then we might see a flare-up, she said. She urged people who are having difficulties related to the bridge disaster to seek help as soon as possible. (Boulder Colorado Daily, CO)
Repairs found needed on many of county’s bridges Aug 14, 2007
While the fear of bridges is not one of Americans top fears spiders, snakes, flying and heights lead that list it is fairly common, and it often results from some other phobia, said Joel I. Johnson, a psychologist who runs an anxiety disorder treatment center in Memphis, Tenn. Many who suffer from gephyrophobia fear the bridge will collapse or they ll run off the edge of it after fleeting thoughts of suicide, Johnson said. (Newport Daily Independent, AR)
SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE NEWS BUDGET Aug 14, 2007
Paul Star Tribune) -- The fear of bridges is real, but it's more about feeling trapped than fearing that it will collapse as happened in Minneapolis. And it is treatable. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Dear Readers, Aug 11, 2007
I found out I am one of millions who have a fear of bridges. It s the number one phobia in the country. (Kentland Newton County Enterprise, IN)
• Collapse Reinforces Bridge Phobics' Fears Aug 4, 2007
Fear of bridges, called gephyrophobia, often involves other fears, such as fear of heights, and feelings of not being in control. Bridge phobics talk about skittering far above the ground or water, out in the open with nothing but low guardrails on each side and sometimes only a metal grid below, trucks and other cars behind and in front and streaming by, and no option to pull over and take a breath. (FOX61, CT)
Review: Wish I Could Be There Feb 10, 2007
Half a century on from Mary's removal, Allen Shawn feels bleakly confident that, were he to unfold a scroll "upon which I had written my phobias, it might stretch all the way to China." He suffers from agoraphobia, claustrophobia, fear of elevators, fear of parking lots, fear of bridges, fear of flying, fear of tunnels and fear of much else that the average person expects to confront in the course of an ordinary day. His descriptions of the paralysis that besets him when faced with the simplest... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
North Carolina Dentist Wins Seven Mile Bridge Race Apr 23, 2006
(CBS4/AP) Marathon A North Carolina dentist, who ironically enough has a fear of bridges, won his second consecutive Seven Mile Bridge Run in the Florida Keys today ... He says "I still have a fear of bridges, but the last two years have been a bit therapeutic.". (WFOR.com, FL)
Oscar winner Stapleton dies Mar 15, 2006
Her career in later life was hampered by a fear of bridges, aeroplanes and elevators. LINKS TO MORE ENTERTAINMENT STORIES. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Actress Maureen Stapleton dead at age 80 Mar 14, 2006
Stapleton, whose career in later life was hampered by a fear of bridges, airplanes and elevators, made her last film appearance in the 1997 romantic comedy "Addicted to Love.". Known as an actor's actor, Stapleton excelled in realistic, unglamorous roles, often playing matronly and grandmotherly figures in a career spanning five decades. (Reuters.uk)
