Yes. Dissociative amnesia does not always involve losing large amounts of time. It can happen even if you never lose hours or days at a time. Dissociative amnesia can affect memories of trauma, daily life, conversations, decisions, emotions, or actions. You may forget things you said, things other people told you, why you walked into a room, or how you got from one place to another. Some memory gaps are subtle and easy to explain away as distraction, stress, or being tired.
Some people lose only a few minutes, parts of conversations, details of events, or specific memories. You may remember that something happened but not remember parts of it clearly. Some people describe “Swiss cheese memory,” where there are small holes or missing pieces rather than complete blackouts.
In dissociative systems, one part may remember something that another part cannot access easily.
This page is part of the Amnesia, Memory Gaps, and Information Barriers in DID section of the CommuniDID site, which explains why dissociative systems experience time loss, emotional amnesia, and state-dependent memory differences between parts.
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