听无止境：“恐桥”——大桥坍塌的后遗症
明尼苏达州的大桥轰然坍塌，夺去的不仅仅是生命，也包括人们的安全感。如今，对于许多人而言，“恐桥症”成为了他们不得不面对的棘手问题。
Bridge phobia
CNN's Carol Costello reports on people who are uncomfortable driving across bridges.
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It's visual reinforcement of something so many people fear a bridge collapsing while they are on it. A phobia historically so strong the Maryland Transportation Authority had to hire private companies to drive or tow fearful drivers across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
"I have tried it a couple of times by myself and I've made it, but I'm always afraid that I'll panic and stop in the middle of the bridge."
She pays Kent Island Coach & Courier 25 bucks every time she has to cross the Bay Bridge. The Minnesota collapse has heightened her anxiety, so much so she almost couldn't bear to cross the bridge. Only the thought of joining her family waiting for her, kept her going. But not every one will be as courageous.
"I worry that people are gonna change their plans and not (because) cross the Bay Bridge because of that. "
Bridge collapses are not common, but when they happen they're so visually frightening. They can cause phobias to develop.
"Watching something over and over again can actually create a trauma even if you're not personally at the event."
But imagine being on the 35-West Bridge and surviving its collapse, for some of those who did, it brings all of those unconscious fears we all have to the surface.
"I see now that any, you know, wherever I am anything can happen, you know, ah, this is just a freak accident, you know, it doesn't happen every day but, stuff like this can happen, it's real in my mind now that stuff like this can happen."
Doctor Saltz worries about that kind of reaction.
"There're going to be a lot of people like this man who are gonna watch it or certainly if you are closed to it and were there, who are now gonna become incapacitated with anxiety about many things that used to be unconscious and now are conscious."
(Transcribed by flyideal)
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