For the estimated seven to ten percent of bereaved adults struggling with Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD), mourning isn’t a slow march forward; it is a state of total paralysis. While typical grief allows the internal clock to keep ticking as the world spins, PGD jams the gears of recovery, trapping individuals in a closed loop of loss-oriented rumination and profound identity disruption. Standard psychiatric treatments like SSRIs frequently fail because PGD is not merely depression, and specialized, multi-session psychotherapies remain difficult for most people to access.

This episode dives into a retrospective analysis of 503 adults who underwent Mindbloom's guided, at-home telehealth ketamine therapy. By acting as an NMDA receptor antagonist, ketamine decreases functional connectivity within the hyperactive default mode network (DMN)—the  ...