Why I make crosses?

Hi everyone. I was hoping if anyone can help me identify this OCD that I have. It has to deal with me make the sign of the cross with either my hands or with a pen or pencil. If I see a blank piece of paper. I draw a cross on it. There are times I make the sigh of the cross with my hand on a wall. I consider my self a good Catholic. I know that I suffer form OCD, I'm taking medication and see a psycologist and psychiarist aboput this. but I was wondering if anyonw has suffered with this or some other type of religous ocd.
I look forward to anyone response and forgive me for being wordy.

hello,

thanks for posting.

do you perform these actions to reduce anxiety, which would continue to exist f you didn't do these things? however, i'm a bit confused: it doesn't seem to bother you much, but you also ask if anyone has suffered from this...?

i was thinking that maybe you do this to remind yourself of god's presence, and maybe it's a way of relieving you... maybe subconsciously. you say that you consider yourself a good catholic, and maybe doing this is a way of reinforcing that you are one.

does the medication help?

what are your thoughts?

A part of my OCD is similar to yours, i see lines twirling around in my head all the time and i constantly have to pass over them and if i see a piece of paper i HAVE to draw the lines i see in my head or else i basically go crazy :\

sometimes i'll see a person going in circles over a gymnastics bar or a rope going in circles or making a shape in my head and i have to try to control it with my mind and make it stop or go in the opposite direction. i make a diamond shape with my tongue and teeth. it's a little odd but i guess it's an ocd thing. as long as it doesn't interfere i think it's ok.

I draw with my head a lot of times - and they are some pretty crazy shapes. My head constantly draws stuff all over the place, I can just see the lines I'm making. I don't draw it because it never turns out the way I had it. But my head does it all the time. I'll make it with my hands and other $#%^ all the time. People think I'm figiting and think I have like ADD or something, but I don't. I just draw symbols and $#%^ with my head and fingers and such. And it bugs me that I do this, and it bugs me that I have these thoughts.

cameraop wrote:Hi everyone. I was hoping if anyone can help me identify this OCD that I have. It has to deal with me make the sign of the cross with either my hands or with a pen or pencil. If I see a blank piece of paper. I draw a cross on it. There are times I make the sigh of the cross with my hand on a wall. I consider my self a good Catholic. I know that I suffer form OCD, I'm taking medication and see a psycologist and psychiarist aboput this. but I was wondering if anyonw has suffered with this or some other type of religous ocd.
I look forward to anyone response and forgive me for being wordy.

I was doing the exact same thing.I"ve stoped doing that beacuse i take Prozac and it realy helped me a lot with my OCD.I was also repeting all the time Holly Jesus and Mary. (of coure, not at loud)