Things become problematic in our life when we use them to escape harder things that we should be confronting and overcoming.
We escape into “pleasure-now-but-regret-later” things like drinking, drugs, social media, over-eating, television, Netflix, video games, etc…
The more we spend away our time on these things the further we enter into the vortex of guilt.
We start to feel guilty, inadequate, and anxious because we’re not doing our duties and thus we seek more of those escapes and our life begins to spiral.