Virus Tsuris Mental Health Resources
Get immediate help in a crisis
- Call 911
- Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 (press 2 for Spanish), or text TalkWithUs for English or Hablanos for Spanish to 66746. Spanish speakers from Puerto Rico can text Hablanos to 1-787-339-2663.
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255) for English, 1-888-628-9454 for Spanish, or Lifeline Crisis Chat.
- National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 or text LOVEIS to 22522
- National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-4AChild (1-800-422-4453) or text 1-800-422-4453
- National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or Online Chat
- The Eldercare Locator: 1-800-677-1116 TTY Instructions
- Veteran’s Crisis Line: 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or Crisis Chat or text: 8388255
Find a health care provider or treatment for substance use disorder and mental health
- SAMHSA’s National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) and TTY 1-800-487-4889
- Treatment Services Locator Website
- Interactive Map of Selected Federally Qualified Health Centers
Pandemic Related Mental Health Resources
- UCLA’s Stand Together
- Child Mind Institute
- CNN Sesame Street: the ABC’s of Covid 19 Town Hall
- CDC – Coping with Stress of Pandemic
- Physician Support Line (888-409-0141) – for healthcare providers who need support.
Dr. Shelly Cohen’s Top 10 ways to Stay Healthy/Positive During Pandemic
- Keep a routine
- Sleep
- Exercise
- Eat well
- Help others where you can
- Refrain from reading the news all day
- Stay connected to others
- Get help if you’re feeling overwhelmed from a mental health provider.
- Try to find meaning for yourself during this time.
- Take vacation
Secrets: Maury Ornest’s Hidden Art
Serets: Maury Ornest’s Hidden Art
January 19 – March 5, 2019
MAURY ORNEST
ARTIST STATEMENT
MAURY ORNEST – March 4, 1960-July 31, 2018
Maury Ornest’s many talents took him from the baseball diamond to the artist’s easel. Born in Vancouver, Canada, he was the youngest of four children of Harry and Ruth Ornest.
Fun-loving, creative, and bright, Maury became a star player who attended college and played minor league baseball until injuries ended his career.
When Maury was 23, he began working in the business office for his father, who had recently bought the St. Louis Blues hockey team and arena. 27
Over the next few years, Maury began to experience paranoia and delusions. He suffered a psychotic break. His life changed almost overnight. While searching desperately for effective treatment, he began to paint.
Despite the isolation he experienced, he was an eternal optimist, evident in the joyous nature, wit and vibrant colors of his paintings. Upon his death from heart disease, his family discovered some 1400 paintings and journals in his Beverly Hills home studio and storage units.
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