Stephanie Stoughton, A.P. reporter, writes first-hand about her fear of bridges and how she has and has not coped with driving over them. She’s stared into volcanoes, looked down from mountain tops, survived a prop plane ride that took off with the door open, but a bridge crossing takes special coping strategies. Like with most phobias, the cure is to face the fear, over and over. “You want to do it to the point that you’re bored.”