In laravel, I am getting the view of current user as a follower of itself instead of followers.

In database i have following structure

id | following_id | followed_id 1 | 3 | 1 2 | 2 | 1

I have user model and it looks like this public function userFollows() { return $this->belongsToMany('Diskourse\Models\User','followers','following_id','followed_id');

}

public function userIsFollowed()
{
    return $this->belongsToMany('Diskourse\Models\User','followers','followed_id','following_id');
}

public function followers()
{
   return $this->userIsFollowed->merge($this->userFollows);
}

And at last view looks like this

            <h4>Followers</h4>

            @if(!$user->followers()->count())

            <p>No followers</p>

            @endif
                @foreach($user->followers() as $follower)

                    @include('user/partials/userblock')

                @endforeach
            </div>
        </div>

If its working it should display user 3 and 2 as a follower of 1. Instead current user profile block is displaying twice. Please Help !!!!

via Chebli Mohamed