Are you depressed? Suicidal? Thinking of calling it permanent quitsies?
Well, science may have an answer if your case of the Mondays is an 8 day a week affair:
The dentist.
No, not the drilling and scraping and clinical torture treatments during which you compose yourself about as well as your dog does when he’s receiving the same procedure. I mean the stuff they put you out with so that you don’t have to ultimately be checked for rabies shots and psychological equanimity after you inadvertently bite the good doctor Conrad (sorry, my dude).
Apparently “laughing gas” is the new emergency exit ledge dwellers might be getting.
While my first thoughts were accompanied with skyward eyes (“Oh great. More treating problems with new drugs and god knows what side effects”), I tried to be open minded as a read. And, to be honest, if those long term things check out, this is one of those treatments that’s so logical for an application, it almost seems stupid we haven’t thought to apply before now. When taken to the lab, the twenty melancholy test subjects demonstrated some surprising results. Two thirds reported a mood-improvement – which would be a “duh” observation if the test ended there (because obviously, laughing gas is going to make you ephemerally happy). But the effects apparently lasted past the day they sucked up the glee fumes – all the way into the following weeks.
Compared to the drugs they have out now (which take upwards of two weeks to work), this stuff works within a couple of hours. I’ve seen the imbalance that ensues with a body acclimating to depression meds. One of my college pals – the flamboyant, always spritely, ex-boyfriend of my best friend – was so happy, I had trouble believing him when he told me he had depression. Until his doc had to tweak his dosage. That shit was like watching the air slowly be let out of a party balloon filled with fairy farts. So if a bit of bliss mist can work faster than those daily pills and it lasts longer, then why not? So long as it’s not addictive.
Wait.. is it addictive?
“…can be similar to the withdrawals that someone may experience if they have not smoked marijuana in a while. There may be bouts of nausea, impulse to want to do Nitrous again, headaches accompanied by lethargy, and just an overall feeling of achy joints and weakness.”
Yikes… I can’t tell if the risk-benefit ratio makes it worth exploring.
Or if we’ll just realize a new wave of junkies giving psychologists some excellent business.
And legit peeps wanting to kill themselves all over again when they experience inter-dose withdrawal.