The brush size circle disappears and I'm left with a crosshairs only

What do I do? This happens occasionally-out of nowhere the brush tool  stops showing as a circle of specfic diameter and shows as a crosshairs, which does me no good whatever. This goes for all tools using the brush presets-brush, eraser, and stamp. I can't do anything. because I can't see the tool I'm working with. I tried restarting PS, then restarting with trashed prefs. Neither worked. I know that sooner or later it will come back and  all wil be well, but meanwhile, the deadlines are creeping closer & closer. The enemy is at the gates. Anybody got any ideas?

Thanks for the tips. I didn't know about the caps lock issue, and I am ham-fisted enough to smash down the caps lock key inadvertently. I'll look into the graphics card driver. It's an AMD Radeon so it should be up-to-date via the Mac update system. I hope it's caps lock. That I can fix. Thanks again.

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