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Jessica Longbottom

Mental health patients say they felt 'dismissed' and 'abandoned' at Essendon Private Clinic

By the time Alyce Gumley got to Essendon Private Clinic in June, she'd been wanting to take her own life for 10 days.

WARNING: This story contains details some readers will find distressing.

She'd been in and out of the voluntary psychiatric facility in Melbourne's north-west multiple times since 2017 for treatment of bipolar one disorder. 

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