Mental Illness Stigma Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. So many people have it worse than you
2. Life is hard for everybody
3. You just need to be more positive
4. Medications keep you from being "real"
5. You just need more exercise
6. Everyone gets depressed/ anxious
7. You just need to pray/find God/be saved
8. You just need to push yourself harder
9. You just need a boyfriend/ girlfriend
10. I wish I could be anorexic (to lose weight)
11. You just need to suck it up
12. You're just being dramatic
13. So many people you really ARE sick
14. You just need to change your diet
15. There is no such thing as ___ (diagnosis)
16. Others did ___ and now they're cured
17. I wish I could be manic
18. How can you do this to your family?
19. You just want special treatment
20. You don't look bipolar/ depressed
21. You just need some self-control
22. It can't be that bad
23. You will never be "ok" again
24. If you can laugh, you are not depressed