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