Borderline Talent Foundation

My first autobiographical book, Elégtétel (Satisfaction), was published under the pen name Carmen Sita.

I graduated in the humanities from Kodolányi János University.

I then worked as a journalism intern at several publications, and later had a column of my own.

After a stay in a psychiatric ward, I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder for the first time. This led me to write my autobiographical novel Én, a megbélyegzett (I, the Stigmatised), which was first self-published. I believed in it so much that I took out a loan to publish it.

We presented the book to the public in November, amid huge media interest.

I climbed the Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest and had it closed, to show the situation of people living with BPD.

A page of the Faculty of Education and Psychology at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE PPK) opens with an excerpt from Én, a megbélyegzett, and it is still in use today. View it on the ELTE PPK website (in Hungarian)

The foundation of Semmelweis University (SOTE) awarded me its Antistigma Prize for the book, a great honour for me.

I was invited to be an adviser and a participant in Falkám, a documentary about borderline personality disorder. The film has been screened at several international festivals, where it won several awards, and it won two main prizes in Hungary. It was also selected for the 24th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival and the 17th East Silver Market in Prague, and later joined the KineDok documentary programme.

In London, through a performance in front of the BBC headquarters and the main entrance of The Guardian, I drew the world's attention to the situation of people with borderline personality disorder and proposed the creation of a World BPD Day.

As a private citizen, I succeeded in having a committee of the Hungarian National Assembly put my proposal on its agenda: that a day for people with borderline personality disorder be added to the official list of national and world days.

I was asked to lead the Borderline Talent Foundation, established in 2021, which I gladly accepted.

The 2nd, expanded and revised edition of Én, a megbélyegzett was published, this time not self-published. In it, I extended the 9-question test from the first edition (used by several clinics) to 13 questions.

I wrote a letter to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, asking that people with borderline personality disorder also be given an official national day.

In response to my letter, the Prime Minister asked Zsolt Nyitrai, his chief adviser, to take responsibility for people with borderline personality disorder, so people with BPD now also have a commissioner in the government.

The Ministry of the Interior also contacted me: Hungary's public healthcare system would like to use the 13-question test from my book for preliminary screening. Talks are still ongoing.

Kodolányi János University, where I studied, used my book to highlight the importance of World Mental Health Day.

I was invited to Endre Kadarkai's widely watched programme Lélekben.

A collection of reports on mental illness was published, in which I was the first to be featured, on borderline personality disorder (Bettina Holló: Máshogyan ugyanúgy). About the book

I was invited to the panel discussion following the premiere of a feature-length film on the psychoanalysis of the poet Attila József.

Helikon published my book Szeretetlenek (The Unloved – Borderline First-Hand), which portrays the lives of people living with borderline personality disorder. As a special bonus, Mercedes-Benz Hovány made its world-first, new-generation car complex available to us as the venue for the book launch.

Within just a few months, I had the honour of seeing Szeretetlenek reach the TOP 30 in the readers' vote of the Hungarian Book of the Year competition!

NewDirected by Eszter Gyulay, a play based on Én, a megbélyegzett and Szeretetlenek premiered on 28 March 2026 at the Szigligeti Theatre in Szolnok, with its Budapest premiere on 15 October 2026.