I have been perusing people's threads, and read one about Dissociation, something I was previously unfamiliar with. A lot of the features of dissociation sound quite familiar, and I wanted to ask about them.

First of all, I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder with psychotic features (paranoia and mild hallucinations). I don't really have any friends who live locally; I have online friends or else long-distance friends, and even those are rather few. But when I talk with them, often I find it extremely difficult to focus on what they're saying, and they have to repeat themselves numerous times. They get irritated with me. And often I think I understood what they said and later they allude to it and I have absolutely no recollection of it. I play an online game with a very diverse community and meet lots of people, and then as soon as we part ways, they're completely gone from my memory. My friends puzzle over how I can just "zone out," and forget entire evenings of events.

I was under the impression that it was simply my memory and attention span being affected by extreme depression. Honestly I didn't even mention this aspect to my psychiatrist because it seemed so minor. Is it possible that it may be dissociation?