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re: Getting vertigo when driving over big bridges?
Posted on 1/28/23 at 10:14 pm to athenslife101
Posted on 1/28/23 at 10:14 pm to athenslife101
Likely not vertigo but more likely anxiety
Often times some amount of fear of heights (" I'm not in control and not safe") will often times include a reaction to spatial type situations.
Often times some amount of fear of heights (" I'm not in control and not safe") will often times include a reaction to spatial type situations.
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Posted on 1/28/23 at 11:20 pm to athenslife101
Posted on 1/28/23 at 11:30 pm to athenslife101
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This never used to happen. And now it doesn’t always happen. And it doesn’t happen when I’m a passenger.
Posted on 1/28/23 at 11:41 pm to athenslife101
Let your husband drive
Posted on 1/28/23 at 11:57 pm to athenslife101
It's a panic attack caused by bridges known as gephyrophobia. I know for the Chesapeake bay bridge they have people on stand by that will drive you and your car over the bridge and tunnel it's so freaky
This post was edited on 1/29/23 at 12:02 am
Posted on 1/29/23 at 12:24 am to athenslife101
My cure for this is to stare at the road straight in front of you. Pretend you are not on a bridge and for the love of God, do not look off to the sides of the bridge.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 12:31 am to athenslife101
I did EMDR therapy after bridge anxiety turned into overpass anxiety and I'd start feeling like I was going to lose consciousness over every bit of elevation (in northern CA where there's greater topological variation.) The EMDR focused on the bridge incident (tire blowout) that pushed my minor discomfort into a full blown panic disorder. I reached out for help after I had issues just driving 101 and was consciously taking surface streets to go anywhere. The EMDR helped a lot.
On a side note, can anyone explain why Texas has to build their freeway interchanges so damn high? There's no reason for the interchange from I10 to BW8 to need to soar hundreds of feet in the air with nothing but 3ft guard rails to keep you from going over the side on the curve. And 99 off I10 is even higher. I can't even look at them much less drive them.
On a side note, can anyone explain why Texas has to build their freeway interchanges so damn high? There's no reason for the interchange from I10 to BW8 to need to soar hundreds of feet in the air with nothing but 3ft guard rails to keep you from going over the side on the curve. And 99 off I10 is even higher. I can't even look at them much less drive them.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 12:39 am to athenslife101
That bridge on i10 near lake Charles messes with my head tbh.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 12:40 am to athenslife101
Never happened until I traveled across a tall bridge with a kid strapped into a car seat. Now, it happens every time
Posted on 1/29/23 at 12:43 am to athenslife101
Happens to me sometimes, especially if it’s a very bright day.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 5:49 am to athenslife101
Same thing happens to me. Never even gave it a thought in the past and one day it hit me…hasn’t been the same since and it’s absolutely unexplainable
Posted on 1/29/23 at 6:34 am to athenslife101
I’m having this EXACT problem with the MS river bridge. I’m really struggling here.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 6:55 am to athenslife101
I've been dealing with this on the causeway for a few years. It's gotten so bad (at times) and unexpected that I feel safer going through Slidell to get to Metairie.
Wouldn't say it's vertigo and would imagine it's some sort of irrational anxiety driven issue but it feels like the bridge is 6' wide and and any turn of my head, lane change, speed over 45/50mph and I feel like the truck is just going to flip over. When it hits, no way I can do the Miss River Bridge but then at times I have no issues. Anytime I am by myself I go through Slidell, if the wife is with me she often just drives now but we have definitely stopped at a crossover or two in our time.
Just read the previous link and yep...this is me, 100%
Wouldn't say it's vertigo and would imagine it's some sort of irrational anxiety driven issue but it feels like the bridge is 6' wide and and any turn of my head, lane change, speed over 45/50mph and I feel like the truck is just going to flip over. When it hits, no way I can do the Miss River Bridge but then at times I have no issues. Anytime I am by myself I go through Slidell, if the wife is with me she often just drives now but we have definitely stopped at a crossover or two in our time.
Just read the previous link and yep...this is me, 100%
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Their hearts race and palms sweat, and they may also have trouble breathing and feel light-headed.
If driving, their hands death-grip the steering wheel. They worry about losing control of the car and veering off the bridge, or of becoming so freaked out that they stop traffic with no shoulder of the road to pull into.
Gephyrophobes are "not worried about the bridge collapsing, they're worried about themselves collapsing," says Jean Ratner, a social worker who directs the Center for Travel Anxiety in Bethesda, Md. She says a bridge phobia may stem from a fear of heights, and what's at the root of the problem is being scared of having a panic attack and not being able to manage it.
This post was edited on 1/29/23 at 6:57 am
Posted on 1/29/23 at 7:07 am to athenslife101
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This never used to happen. And now it doesn’t always happen. And it doesn’t happen when I’m a passenger. But the last 6 months I’ve noticed a real odd feeling sometimes when driving up big bridges. Feels a bit like I’m flying off into space and I feel kinda dizzy.
Anyone else ever feel that
It started happening to me a several years ago going over a bridge in Jacksonville. You're having a panic attack. I went to my doctor who prescribed my Xanax. Now it's a none issue.
This post was edited on 1/29/23 at 7:10 am
Posted on 1/29/23 at 7:25 am to athenslife101
This happens to me. It's like a mild buzzed dizzy feeling. I even went to an ENT to get my inner ear checked out. Nothing was wrong. My anxiety has gotten bad lately (last 2 years) and I have experiences like this especially in traffic. Its fricking annoying.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 7:35 am to athenslife101
Skyway bridge in Tampa gets me...
Stare ahead and don't say a word to me while a drive it
Stare ahead and don't say a word to me while a drive it
Posted on 1/29/23 at 7:42 am to athenslife101
Not dizzy but definitely anxiety. Last month I was driving and had to cross the Mississippi river and 3 miles after that the Ohio river. I wasn't familiar with the area but it was where the two rivers join. It's a good thing I didn't know that was coming. Their two lane bridges makes Baton Rouge's old bridge look new. Holy hell .
Posted on 1/29/23 at 8:29 am to athenslife101
I get anxious every time I drive over the old bridge (west bound) in Port Arthur. I stopped driving over the I-10 bridge in Lake Charles about 8 years ago.
Posted on 1/29/23 at 8:51 am to athenslife101
Say what!? Judging by these comments this seems normal. Just pretend you aren’t on a bridge.
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