withCount on same model crashes app

[AlbertoSinigaglia]

• Laravel Version: 6.X
• PHP Version: 7.4
• Database Driver & Version: MySQL (doesn't matter)

Description:

I have the following model:

class Category extends Model implements TranslatableContract
{
    use Translatable;
    protected $guarded = [];
    public $useTranslationFallback = true;
    public $translatedAttributes = [
        'category_name',
        'category_url',
        'category_description',
        'category_meta_description',
    ];
    public $translationForeignKey = 'category_id';
    protected $table = 'categories';
    protected $primaryKey = 'category_id';

    protected $casts = [
        'category_public' => 'boolean'
    ];
    protected static function boot()
    {
        parent::boot();

        static::addGlobalScope('counts', function (Builder $builder) {
            $builder->withCount('categories');
            $builder->withCount('products');
        });
    }
...
    public function categories(){ return $this->hasMany('App\Models\Category', 'category_parent', 'category_id');}
}

this is crashing my whole app, not even the Handler.php class works, it returns just a 500 error. However, if I remove $builder->withCount('categories');, it works fine, so I suppose there is something wrong with the withCount related to the same model

this happens also with:

class ... {
  protected $withCounts = ['categories'];
}

but works if I use Category::withCount('categories')->get(); anywhere else

UPDATE:
I've solved using

protected static function boot()
{
    parent::boot();

    static::addGlobalScope('counts', function (Builder $builder) {
        $builder->addSelect([
            'categories_count' => \DB::table('categories as cat_tmp')
                ->whereRaw('cat_tmp.category_parent = categories.category_id')
                ->selectRaw('COUNT(*)')
        ]);
    });
}

So I think it's a possible problem of infinite recursion(?) something like Category::boot that calls Category::boot etc etc