Trusting is fair enough, but verifying is not an option, it is the only way.

You cannot calm down the storm.
Calm down yourself, and face the storm.

Going desperate about a situation you cannot avoid or change is not solving your problem, changing your circumstances so when the situation hits you than it finds you ready to resist untill it passes and you can raise again; seems to be a more of a wise option.

That also involves situation awarness, you cannot prepare yourself to be resilient and master yourself during bad times unless you are fully aware such times might come, what would they look like, what resurces you need to gather to cope with the situation, what knowledge you need to achieve to handle such resurces thoughtfully and wiselly, whom can you count on, and whom can count on you.

That involves building ties with some sort of comunity that is looking into similar options, might have gathered knowledge, might think otherwise than you do hence see things that you have missed from your assesements, and so on.

That involves communication with people, groups, and obviously scammers that want to make a living on your fears, desires, needs or wants, and especially on your naivety.

And that involves building the ability to segregate good info from bad intel, good people from parasites, and the ability to belive nothing just because said so by somebody in some authoriatarian position such as a politician, minsiter, bank president, medical doctor or some top scientist, because everybody will convincingly lie to anybody as long as the money is good to do that, so trusting is fair enough, but verifying is not an option, it is the only way.