STEVE LISS FOR TIME
  Natalie Bible, 18
HOMETOWN: Knoxville, Tenn.
BIO: At 15, Bible was misdiagnosed with ADHD and a year later had her first manic episode. She decided to drive to a religious revival in Florida but left town without telling anyone. "I had this feeling that if I didn't get in the car and drive, I was going to explode," Bible says. Bipolar disorder was diagnosed, and now she takes an anticonvulsant drug to keep symptoms in check. A recent high school grad whose favorite spot to sit and think is a nearby cemetery, Bible plans to take a year off before going to college to study theater.

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 FROM THE AUG. 19, 2002 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED SUNDAY, AUG. 11, 2002

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