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