High anxiety: Drivers fight fear of tall bridges

• Story Highlights
• Therapist: Phobics put themselves in car trunks to cross scary Bay Bridge
  
• Drivers ask service to drive them across; some lie in back seat, cry, shake
  
• Author's fear of high bridges causes panic, racing heartbeat, spinning head
  
• Fight panic by breathing slowly, relaxing, refocusing, envisioning reward at end
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