Ruth Manning

RUTH MANNING, PhD is a blogger, writer, speaker, and advocate for mental health. She’s experienced more than a dozen severe manic psychotic episodes requiring hospitalization in her over-forty-year diagnosed history with bipolar I disorder.

Ruth is passionate about sharing her own personal experiences to dispel myths, stereotypes, and stigma; to give hope to others with mental illness; and to educate patients, family members, friends, co-workers, media outlets, and law enforcement officers about mental diseases.

Ruth’s a retired professional with a varied career path—founder and CEO of a biotech DNA sequence analysis software company, consultant for some of the world’s fastest supercomputers, US national laboratory scientist, and university mathematics professor.

In 1979, Ruth earned a PhD in mathematics with a concentration in computer science from the University of Tennessee. She lives in Charlotte, NC near her two children and four grandchildren.