That would be difficult to prove. The majority of people do find something that causes them to rebound. Were it not for the traditions that she grew up around, she might have clung to something a little more tangible.
Difficult to prove, true, but in order to try and see her cope without religion would be to go back and time and make her grow up without it. The majority being able to rebound without a strong religion may be true, but I haven't seen it. I've seen a girl who lost her dad who couldn't sleep or eat well for long periods of time and got sent to the mental hospital for cutting herself. I've seen a grown women who lost her husband and went back to acting like a destructive immature teenager getting wasted, partying, and continuous inviting random guys over without knowing or caring if they were safe to take home.
I guess what I'm trying to prove with that, religion, as much as it has the ability to repress mental growth, isn't always as bad as non religious people say it is.
I hear about the guilt people go through trying to get past their religion. People who end up coming out of the closet but feel horrible about themselves because their religion told them they were evil. Women who wanted to learn, show their face, and be independent getting brought down by self guilt and sometimes attacked by other people. I heard a story the other night about a women who escaped a religious compound, about the death threats against her for escaping. I hear about all this and I bloody hate religion. Anything that tells a person that seeking their own truth and going against the grain is wrong. That uses fear and guilt to control people.
But shit isn't so easy as to be able to step in and say "thats wrong, stop", and I think people forget how complicated the situation really is when trying to deal with religious and cultural ideas.