Individuals who have this particular fear experience enormous anxiety when confronted with the prospect of having to cross a bridge. High bridges are especially frightening, as are bridges over gorges or water.
Quite often this fear can also be combined with other fears such as the fear of heights, agoraphobia or claustrophobia.
The individual suffering from gephyrophobia may be fearful that they will lose control or faint.
Fear breeds fear and this can easily lead to feelings of abject panic.
Many people who suffer from this particular phobia go to great lengths so that they can avoid crossing bridges. Often they go to great pains to plan their travels so that they do not have to cross over a bridge.
What has happened is that at a deep, subconscious level, the bridge phobic has learned to associate anxiety with the thought of crossing bridges. At some time in the past, he or she will probably have undergone an experience that in some way frightened them and they linked this scared feeling with bridges.
It's as though the person has stopped trusting themselves when it comes to moving over a bridge. And the subconscious mind is producing fear so that he or she will not place themselves in danger.
For the conscious mind, of course, it may be only too clear that such fears are groundless. They may even seem silly. But fear is a feeling and the conscious mind runs on logic, not emotion.
No matter how hard they might try, the phobic individual is usually powerless to analyze or 'think away' their fear.
Fear, like all emotions and feelings, is produced in the subconscious mind and it is in the subconscious mind that the solution lies.
Through the skilful use of modern advanced transformational hypnosis, we can delve into the subconscious mind and re-educate it. We can re-align it with reality so the bridge phobic person can let go of the fear and return to their natural state.
Even though the thought of driving over or crossing a bridge may seem too difficult for you to contemplate at the moment, the fact is that you can be helped to conquer your fear of bridges and cross them with ease and in the complete absence of anxiety.
Working with a fully qualified and experienced advanced transformational hypnotherapist, you can once again return to the freedom that is your birthright.
