Dating somewith with Depersonalization Disorder

A friend recently introduced me to a man - and we spent the first few weeks getting to know each other by emails, fb messaging, text messaging and phone calls. He told me that he suffered terribly from anxiety. We met in person, and we ended up spending the night together. Then everything changed. He told me that he suffers from derealization and what we'd done had put him into a panic. He said he felt guilty, and his anxiety levels were now through the roof.
The following week he stopped contacting me - he would read messages I'd sent to him but did not reply - by the end of the week he finally started responding and we caught up again. He told me that he did not mean to ignore me - he was just going through so much confusion - and that I was always in his thoughts.
I care very, very deeply for this man. But I don't know enough about his condition to understand what he feels/what he is going through. Is it normal for someone with DD to pull away? How can we/I work through this?

In answer tou your question, yes. This is normal for someone with a dissociative disorder such as depersonalization. I, too suffer from depersonalization disorder. When I'm in a funk, it's like nothing is real. I don't feel anything. It feels like I'm watching my life on t.v. All I can do is just watch as the people I love are hurt and confused by my complete lack of emotion. It's very hard to explain and even harder to experience. I wish I could offer you some magic advice to help the both of you through this, but there isn't any. The only advice I can give you is to research the condition and decide if it's something you can live with now, before either of you gets too attached. To do otherwise would be cruel. Good luck.

Thankyou for your reply. I have tried giving him space this week and have not tried to contact him - and he has not tried to contact me. Not sure if this is the right way to go about things? I don't want him to think that I don't care about him (because I care about him very, very much) - but I also don't want to be 'in his face' ... I've tried researching but as you said, unless you've experienced it, it's hard to explain.