is it similar to drug addiction?

i realised my mother spends 10h of her day praying. 8 hours sleeping, and 6h going about her business. she’s a pious women who thinks that her life has ended in her 50s, and there is nothing she can give to her people and community.

i deeply believe that her over religiousity is a hidding place from society, from herself, from her pains.

a true monastic behaviour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrupulosity