The thing is I didn't mention the more recent symptoms. I had convinced myself that the time loss never really happened, in part because I didn't think it was possible. The other complication is that many of my symptoms had remitted by the time I was admitted for self-injury.


I just read two papers. Spitzer, Barnow, Freyberger & Grabe, 2006, review the distinction between "compartmentalizing" dissociation and "detached" dissociation, with the former including amnesia and conversion disorders and the latter including depersonalization and derealization. Apparently they load on separate factors, for example Baker et al 2003 found that their sample of depersonlized subjects had low rates of amnesia. However "depersonalization" itself is broad. My involuntary actions sound more like a co-conscious possession, like what you describe, albeit very breif and without any apparent memory loss.