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Laughing Gas Can Offer Immediate Relief From Depression, Study Finds (www.sciencealert.com)

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The researchers found that administering the gas helped reduce depressive symptoms in as little as two hours. Relief was relatively short-lived, with symptoms returning within the week unless the dose was repeated.

"This study brings together the best possible evidence indicating that nitrous oxide has the potential to provide swift and clinically significant short-term improvements in patients with severe depression," says clinical psychologist Kiranpreet Gill, from the University of Birmingham.

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Beer is a depressant in the long run.

Just because you've been convinced that "there's always a price" doesn't mean it's true.

Otherwise what's the point of any fucking medication.

Alcohol doesn't offer instant relief from depression or annoyance. It offers a tiny relief to how you're feeling at the moment some minutes after you've take it, and the effect doesn't last. The only thing beer immediately relieves is thirst, and that's not because of the alcohol in it, but the water.

It's not the same with laughing gas.

I believe the antidepressive properties are to do with its dissociative nature. That's why ketamine works as well. And yeah, you can get addicted and abuse either one. Still, it's dumb saying "beer does that for me".