Hello StephenWW: I'm sorry I don't have much of anything I can offer in the way of suggestions here. But I saw that no one had replied to your post, so I thought I would. I don't know a lot about psych med's in general. I've taken a few on-&-off over the years without much benefit. I no longer take any.

I struggle with a lot of recurring troubling memories. They just keep coming back over-&-over again. There's no way to get rid of them & no way to stop them & nothing I can do about them. (Oh, & by the way, I have a history of suicide attempts to show for them.) So this is a serious issue for me.

I believe one cannot stop, or stuff down, disturbing repetitive thoughts or emotions. This simply makes them keep coming back stronger & more frequently. So I simply strive to accept them... with lovingkindness & compassion. When one comes along, I breathe into it & smile to it. I then try to drop the "storyline" (what the thought entails) & continue to breathe into the underlying emotion (be it fear, hate, sorrow, whatever) until it fades of it's own accord. This is a Buddhist practice called: "compassionate abiding". In addition, I do walking meditation & I frequently practice compassionate abiding when disturbing, repetitive thoughts arise while I'm walking.

I wish you well...