Gerd Naydock

Wynnewood, Pennsylvania

Psychology Extern

"If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thine own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now." Marcus Aurelius My mother brought me to the United States in 1965 from the industrial city of Essen, Germany. I grew up in the outskirts of Baltimore, MD. After barely graduating high school, I briefly worked in a paint factory amidst all kinds of toxic crap and ended up in a severe state of melancholic thinking that this was all there was to life. I made the fateful decision that the Marine Corps was my way out of an otherwise unhappy situation. I still have no regrets about having made this decision. In addition