to have realised I have been using AIBU to work through all my feelings of inadeqacy, guilt and anxiety

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? I looked at "I started", and realised this narcissistic fact!

I am quite nice in real life and not this self obsessed, I hope!

Actually - I AM being unreasonable as this thread is also one of those, now I look again! I just looked through the "I started" and was embarrassed! I am going to give this internet chat thing up, except for reading others' threads!

I'd much prefer to read about your feelings of inadequacy, guilt and anxiety than confront my own

Not that I think you're right in your conclusion, I can only remember one of those posts from last night, so can't really comment.

Maybe I can see this cathartic narcissism as a positive then - it's helping others to know they are not as crap as me, which must be life affirming, surely?