Alias to user folder inside user folder?

For some reason I've found I now have an alias (symbolic link?) to my user folder inside my user folder. This seems odd. It was created last November, and I have no idea how or why.
I'm wondering if it can have anything to do with the many anomalies I seem to be experiencing in Mavericks 10.9.5 on an Intel iMac, e.g.:
• The horror of thousands of "com.apple.IconServicesAgent failed to write" messages suddenly starting to show up in Console, with com.apple.IconServicesAgent consuming huge amounts of CPU time and memory, and Finder windows not listing their contents, with a gear in the corner spinning endlessly
• Extremely slow boot-up
• Extremely slow opening of apps such as Safari and Mail
• My main level "Library" and "mach_kernal" having become visible, when they originally were invisible
It seems that my entire system has gotten extremely sluggish, and I have tried everything I know, going through countless threads in this forum, trying "fixes" that don't seem to fix anything about it. I'm desperate, and now am wondering if this odd alias has anything to do with my woes. It's very troubling.
Thanks for any help anyone can give me

I do not think having an Alias to your home directory in your home directory will affect your performance issues.
I suggest you post the output from EtreCheck and let the forum analyze it.
<https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6174>
I suspect something more serious is going on. Adware perhaps.
With respect to a back pointing Alias, since anyone can create an Alias (or a similar, BUT different, Unix symbolic link), the operating system is prepared to deal with loops, and tends to notice when a request to access a file has an infinite loop Alias or symlink in the path that prevents it from actually getting there.
You just double clicking on an Alias, that takes you back up the directory tree, is not an automated process, so you can most likely do that all day long, until you get tired of playing that game.
An applications program that decides to walk a directory tree by opening one directory at a time and not keep track of its history, nor notice that it opened an Alias or symlink is an application program that has a bug in it. There are not many programs that actually do this, and the few that do, have already discovered they need to either NOT follow an Alias or symlink, or know enough to maintain state information that tells them when they have a loop.

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