Nobody should have to notice their own relapse alone.

Why we are building this

A relapse into psychosis often hides from the person it’s happening to.

Doctors can diagnose psychosis, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and severe depressive episodes. They can prescribe medication that works. But episodes are not all the same size, and some of them call for a change in treatment, often a higher dose, at exactly the moment the patient is least able to see that anything has changed.

In an episode, a person can lose access to the part of their own mind that would normally say something is wrong. They start doing things they would never do on an ordinary day, and they don’t realise it. When friends or family raise it, they become defensive. They argue. They begin to doubt the people around them, and so they don’t ask for help, because from where they stand there’s nothing to ask for.

So they withdraw. Isolation makes room for habits and vices that weren’t there before. Left long enough, someone who was never a danger to anyone ends up exposed to danger: to themselves, from others, from situations they would have walked away from when well.

Adamfo flips the burden. Instead of waiting for someone in crisis to raise their hand, it asks them to do one small thing each day while they’re well, something that stops being a priority the moment they’re not. The silence is the signal, and it reaches the right people while there’s still time to help.