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