Why is my ex messing with me...he did have depression/ADHD but does he still have feelings 4me or just games?

my ex boyfriend&i are both 19&go to different schools. we were together all through highschool, he cheated on me, was mentally abusive&physically abusive(not to the extreme).However, i stuck with him for 3+years.i was stupid and naive i know,but 4 some reason i was hooked.he went on antidepressants&spontaneously broke up w/ me only weeks after.That was a little over1yr ago.since weve been broken up we started dating again for a few month&he broke up w/me again-a few months ago he told me he still loves me&always will&that he'll never find anyone better-then he went back to ignoring me again.since then i have gotten another boyfriend who i really like&care about so much.he treats me like a princess&i couldnt as for a better guy-when my ex found out i was w/a new guy he emailed me telling me he had a dream about me&wondering how im doing-he called me&txted me multiple times but i never answered b/c i feel like he's trying to stop me from being happy

for a few months now he hasn't tried to contact me &seems happy. i havn't spoken to him or seen him, but i dont know why i still think about him every day. i do not want to be with him, but i think what i want more is for him 2 realize what he lost, but instead over the years all he's done is pushed me away only to bring me back over and over and over again.

my question is...do u think i should try to contact him, and FURTHERMORE...although he looks okay on the outside, this is a boy that has mental illnesses and is medicated---do u think he even cares that im with someone else or did he just email me in hopes to get me to think of him so that im not with someone else. Does he miss me at all and realize what hes lost...and will someone like him u think ever find someone better. sorry for all the questions im just really confused and i need some sort of closure to truly move on and stop worrying about him and just care about the new guy

We all want the other person to admit they were wrong. 50 years later we look up old boyfriends and girlfriends, hoping we will find out they had a miserable life without us. The purpose of dating and forming relationships throughout our life is to learn from them and be able to choose the correct friends and partners to compliment our lives. Move on - it's obvious he isn't going to be the only guy in your life.

I think you shouldn't contact him back because he is already blurring your thoughts without contacting and if you contact him I don't think it would be any better. Don't worry about him I'm sure he would be okay and somehow find a way to live his life.
Ask this question to yourself after contacting him what do you expect to happen or what do you expect him to do? Is there any possibility that something good would happen afterwards?