I also suffered with the shakes on lithium and turned down the propo what's it's name, because I didn't want to be medicated for a disorder and side effects... Maybe that was dumb tho, because 5 years after quitting lithium I still have tremors. But I console myself with the fact that I'm not stupid anymore.

I actually get therapy at a place where they encourage trying as little meds as is humanly possible, and the pdocs even aim to get some of the clients med free. So its a breath of fresh air, not at all like "I will drug you to your eyeballs so you are more pliable" doctors that I encountered in the past.

My golden rule for new dxs: Dont pathologize and over analyze yourself. Even we have normal mood shifts like everyone else, and hyper focusing tends to make us crazier, because we believe we are more symptomatic than we are.
Rule of thumb, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, in other words, if you're only displaying one or two symptoms from either side of the pendulum and its NOT affecting you nor your functionality negatively... Then just go about your way and your day.

PS. I immediately accepted my dx, I knew early on I was wired differently, it was an "aha" moment to put a name to it.
Now ita just another part of me, like my eye color.