When reading your comments, do you find it a little bit cathartic that you're just as nuts as everyone else?

When reading your comments, do you find it a little bit cathartic that you're just as nuts as everyone else?
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I don’t use ask-public as catharsis, and I don’t think very many of us are nuts.
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