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Well, I will admit that I am a low order bipolar.
(Just means that I'm not crazy enough to admit to the luny bin, but not sane enough to be listed as normal. But then again, most artists aren't sane anyway.)

Anti-depressants and bipolars don't mix at all.
Rather than continue on xanax or docepin with it's accompanying effects, I dropped off of it cold turkey.
And was better off for it too.
(I also think & feel that suicide is for cowards and weak people. Says alot about my 'mores'.)

Unfortunately, there truly isn't any help for people like me.
Anti-pychotics only really go so far, and one needs to make guesses about which ones to use. (The odd reaction to meds deal.)
That, and they STILL don't know for sure what xanax, docepin, paxil, and prozac really do. Kinda like Russian Roulette with the brain chemistry.

I don't have an answer for your friend, but I do know from experience and reading info that xanax isn't a good idea.
(Unless one doesn't want to have kids, doesn't mind the leathery tongue and has no problem with zombie like fugue states at times... xanax and docepin can make one permanently sterile, not something they tell you outright either. Paxil can bring out 'latent psychosis'. That's in it's own literature on it, but it's buried in the small print.)