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