thanks for your post, imapatient. every new med that i've started has caused me some amount of grief when it comes to tremors (even those where it's only noted as a very rare side effect), so i guess i'm wary of lithium. the first med i tried -- prozac -- gave me tremors for months. i couldn't navigate the stairs at uni very well, i shook that much. ppl probably thought i was a junkie too .

i guess i'll just have to hold out hope that my body will adapt, like it has all the other times.

thank you especially for this last line -- " keep hearing that more and more people are on Lithium so I don't care much. It's so out there in the discourse that people understand that taking it doesn't mean that you are....whatever might be viewed as more serious." you're right. i think i need to work through my own prejudice first, and also remind myself that perceptions are changing.

i think i must be having a hard time, because i recently 'outed' myself as taking meds to a group of people i thought would be supportive at best, or just be indifferent. instead, i felt completely attacked. it's silly that i'm letting the perception of others dictate my choices on what could ultimately prove to be very beneficial to me.

thank you so much for coming back to respond to this thread. it's given me a good space to work through some of this.