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