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Right, it's @threadapalooza today. That means you all get 100 tweets about how trust works.

Cool thread! (wondering if you have any other existing thoughts on other variations of trust. e.g. "trusting yourself" or "trusting the universe" or "trusting the process")

I've read the paper, quite quality stuff. Some random thoughts 1. The author cites discussions on how important it is to trust your past intentions and memory. Imo, this is a bit simillar to how depressed people are more likely to strongly dissociate from themselves

2. I think that anxiety can be interpreted as a lack of trust. You question whether or not you can rely on smth and that is taxing to your mind and body In both cases ofc there could be biological reasons, but it is worth a thought

3. I wonder if trauma is a sort of negative trust. I.e. "I am sure that unspeakable horrors will happen" Author also cites how some forms of trauma involve a breakdown of a sort of fundamental trust. E.g. you trust the ground to stay still and carry you...