If you are using the game as a means of escape then this is not necessarily okay. It can make sense temporarily if that is what's keeping you going from day to day but if this lasts longer than it is needed it can potentially hold you back, a lot. Sometimes realizing this can bring you to face that what you really want to be doing is not playing this game at all. Sometimes the correct choice is to let go, not because you're giving up but because this was never what you really wanted in the first place. For many people this can be a very difficult realization because it means acknowledging that a large portion of their life has been spent doing something they didn't even really care about and they can end up at the conclusion that they wasted their time/life (which can lead to a desire to escape in of itself).

If this is the case, you are not alone. This was case for me as well for a long period of time. Fortunately it is not the case for me any longer and I feel very lucky for having gotten out of it. That's really what a lot of it comes down to, I had help from the outside (people who were genuinely kind to me) and a lot of people do not. Worse still there is very little sympathy towards people who are trapped in a bad cycle. Most people will just blame you for it without taking the time to really try and understand your situation (in the form of telling you to do something about it yourself). Although that has caused me to suffer I do have a degree of sympathy towards people who will not take the time to try and understand another human being.