The victim of a violent sexual assault reveals how the device is helping her copeAnonymous
May 26 2019, 12:01am, The Sunday Times
![After using the Alpha-Stim device, ‘I am no longer jumping at every shadow and sound’, says a rape victim](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Fsundaytimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F32665008-7f18-11e9-a6f6-79962f69dbc6.jpg?crop=2667%2C1500%2C0%2C0&resize=685)
I am sitting in an uncomfortable chair, five small electrodes fixed to my head to monitor my brain waves, for my first session of cranial electrotherapy stimulation with an Alpha-Stim.
At first nothing happens. Then I feel the world pitch ever so slightly backwards and suddenly I’m aware of a warm, pulsing sensation at the back of my neck. I burst into tears.
I have cried a lot in my lifetime. I have cried in public and in private. I have sat at my desk and leaked quiet, uncontrollable tears. I have welled up and wept to family and friends. I have howled a wounded, pitiful sound that shames.
![‘I plug in for 20 minutes of a low dose of electro-cranial stimulation’ from the Alpha-Stim](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Fsundaytimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F7c9f4e16-7f01-11e9-a6f6-79962f69dbc6.jpg?crop=2206%2C1470%2C116%2C11&resize=498)