When did you recover your memories (like how old) and what triggered it and did it make you feel ill and how did you find a specialist who took you seriously, if you did?

I had years, and years of "normal" life, but went through some horrible emotional abuse that triggered other personalities... but I never really felt ill when it happened... just really bad headaches with vision problems, and light sensitivity.

I'm pretty much just lucky that someone took it serious... I wasn't looking for anyone, I kept getting brought to the hospital by the police, because my other personalities are some over the top characters... I mean inter galactic spy shit... Yeah my personalities are quite "out there". It was around the sixth time I was at some random hospital AGAIN, and the right doctor, at the right time, with the right diagnosis gave me my life back.

As for the how old question... the whole thing from start (first split) to finish (diagnosis) was about 5 years or so, and I'm fourty-ish. I'm lucky even though it was intense, it was figured out early.