This, this, this. I definitely get this problem. People ask me about anything longer than a week ago, and I’ve probably already forgotten it. I dissociate. I forget a lot of things. I barely remember things I’m learning in class.
I don’t think it is a matter of forgetting. That would suggest cognitive dysfunction. Dissociation is the separation of consciousness. As though time was lost, it is not being aware of something whereas losing cognizance at a later date is different. It is not being aware at all.
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Schizophrenia and dissociation may not be uncommon, as it is often a mixture of trauma, drug abuse and genetic disposition that is the precursor to schizophrenia. The fact that DID patients have a traumatic background, whether they have sz or not is the common denominator that in a Venn diagram is where sz patients and DID patients interchange, more often the cause being sexual abuse victims.
Forgetting something at a later date is very different to not being aware at all, due to separation of consciousness in the first place.
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My therapist says I’m severely dissociated, so that may be what’s happening to me. I just go through life, sometimes knowing what happened, sometimes not.
If you go through life aware and then not aware with no memory of the dissociated periods then you indeed may be suffering from a dissociative disorder. If you are aware all the time and then forget what happened then that is entirely different.
Perhaps, that is something to question the therapist about specifically.
All the best Zombiepupper. 
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I lost a day once when I was psychotic, but that is all my experience with losing time with schizophrenia.
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