Hi, I’m Young Joong — and I built fixmybrain because I needed it.

I studied Cognitive Science at Berkeley. I was the kind of student who had a million side projects running at once and somehow never the one that was actually due. I figured that was just my personality — restless, curious, a little chaotic. After university I became a software engineer, and over the next decade I lived in five different countries, chasing the next interesting thing.

Eventually I founded Hypnothera.ai, building tools to help people change the patterns they feel stuck in. I was, in other words, deep in the science of the brain and behaviour for years — without realising the most obvious case study was me.

Just before I turned 30, I went to see a therapist about something else entirely. Somewhere in that conversation, ADHD came up. I got formally assessed, and the diagnosis came back. And suddenly everything made sense — the million side projects, the five countries, the brilliant focus on the wrong thing at the wrong time, the shame that came with all of it. It wasn’t a character flaw. It was a brain that worked differently, and that I’d been white-knuckling my way through for 30 years.

fixmybrain is the resource I wish I’d had at 22, or 25, or any of the years I spent assuming I was just bad at being a person. It pairs what I learned studying cognitive science with what I’ve lived — and it’s built to be the opposite of a cold medical form. Understand how your brain actually works, get strategies that fit it, and feel a little less alone in it.