5. Chocolate Eclairs and Mutual Madness

In the fifth installment of 'Maura and Me,' I learn how to make friends in the psych ward

A psychiatric ward runs on regulation, protocol, and scrutiny. I’ve never been in the Navy but from my grandfather’s stories, psych wards and Naval procedures seem comparable in their strict rigidity. Of course, the Navy is full of people who likely “want” to be there and likely have their faculties. The ward, however, is most definitely not. But that d…