The chapter addresses the distinction invoked by the division among the descriptive terms applied to ecological emotions: between a mental health issue (depression, trauma, melancholia), which might be taken as pathological or calling for a remedy or treatment, and an emotion of an existential kind that may (or may not) be a legitimate take on one’s life. Most responses to the climate crisis incorporate both aspects; however, the latter aspect needs to be stressed. Using the term “the soul”, instead of “the mind”/the mental, offers an explanatory advantage, as the soul is traditionally understood as that part of us which responds to the recognised disruptions of value (existential, moral, aesthetic, spiritual). Climate-related distress has this nature.