Responses to people who criticize therapy - 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 need to take responsibility"
2. Cluster B personality disorder or psychosis accusation
3. Magic wand
4. *Anecdote about how therapy saved their life*
5. Cognitive distortions
6. "You're preventing others from getting help"
7. Transference
8. "You're not ready to get better"
9. "Studies show that therapy works" *never provides said studies*
10. Bad fit
11. Not all therapists
12. Anti-science
13. Compassion fatigue
14. "You need to do the work"
15. "Therapy only works if you want it to work"
16. "Therapy only works if you're open and honest"
17. "Therapy isn't meant to be a cure"
18. "Therapists are only human"
19. "You need to keep trying"
20. "It gets worse before it gets better"
21. *Insults your intelligence*
22. "Therapists can't work harder than their clients"
23. "You must've been told something you didn't like"
24. Chemical imbalance