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