I think the final ability to cry, may beneficial, wow, you bottled that up for a long time, just want you to know I do not see anything wrong, and the others too, do not frown on men crying, we all need to do that sometimes, it gives us a release.
I am sincerely wishing you luck with all of this, I am sure with being commited to staying with treatment you'll do fine, and with that in time (there is no "set time", everyone is individual ) you'll develop a way to deal with this, keep in toouch with a therapist for talk, and keep with a pdoc for med monitoring, so if changes in meds need be you'll have the right doc for this, GP's try to treat mental disorders, but really aren't qualified, they are not psychiatrists.
Again, I wish you all the luck with this

Sincerely,
DE

In giving advice seek to help, not please your friend
SOLON