Beáta Carmen Kneszl - Founder and curator

My name is Carmen Beáta Kneszl, I graduated from the János Kodolányi University in 2009.

As a journalist, I was an intern at several newspapers, and after that, I also ran my own column.

My first autobiographical book was published in 2005 under the title Elégtétel (Satisfaction), then under the pseudonym Carmen Sita.

In 2015, after a psychiatric hospitalization, I was first diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. As a result, I wrote my autobiographical novel "I, the stigmatized". Which was first published privately. I believed in it so much that I took out a loan to publish it. The book is about Borderline personality disorder and was presented to the public in November 2016. This, one might say, was surrounded by huge media interest.

In 2016, I climbed and closed the Széchenyi Chain Bridge, illustrating the "situation" of people suffering from BPD.

In 2017, the opening webpage of the ELTE PPK (ELTE-Faculty of Education and Psychology) department opened with an excerpt from the book „I, the stigmatized”, which it still uses to this day.

https://www.ppk.elte.hu/content/szomoru-szamok-osztalynyi-gyerek-lesz-ongyilkos-minden-evben.t.33265

In 2017, the SOTE foundation awarded me the Antistigma award for the book, which is a huge honor for me.

And in 2019, I was asked to act as a consultant and actor in the documentary about Borderline Personality Disorder called Falkám (My pack). So far, the film has been presented at several international festivals, where it has received several awards.

In 2020, in London, within the framework of a performance presentation - both at the BBC headquarters and at the main entrance of The Guardian - I drew the world's attention to the situation of people suffering from borderline personality disorder and proposed the creation of a world BPD day.

In 2021, as a civilian, I managed to get the Committee of the Hungarian Parliament to discuss my proposal as an agenda item, according to which the Day of People with Borderline Personality Disorder should also be included in the official list of national and world days.

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

In 2022, the 2nd expanded, revised edition of „It’s me the stigmatized”, was published again (no longer privately published), in which I modified the 9-question test in the previous publication (which was used by several clinics) to 13 questions.

In 2022, I wrote a letter to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in which I requested that people with Borderline Personality Disorder also receive an official national day.

In 2022, in response to my letter, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán asked Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister Zsolt Nyitrai to be responsible for people suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder, thus also becoming ministerial commissioner for people suffering from BPD in the government.

In 2022, the Ministry of the Interior also contacted me that the Hungarian State Health Service would also like to use the 13-question test in my book for the purpose of preliminary diagnosis.

In October 2023 famous Hungarian magazine, “Éva” already refers to the writer as a BPD ambassador.

In November 2023, the weekly newspaper Szabad Föld published a portrait interview stating that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also supports the civil initiative and We are constantly working together with the Hungarian Government to establish a day for people suffering from BPD, which has never been realized anywhere in the world so far. In addition, I am writing a sequel to the book about managing and solving Borderline – which has also never been available anywhere in the world before. It’s include the competention wich are never collected before it on the World too.