Editing Logotherapy (section)

===Depression===
Viktor Frankl believed depression occurred at the psychological, physiological, and spiritual levels.<ref name="Boeree" /> At the psychological level, he believed that feelings of inadequacy stem from undertaking tasks beyond our abilities. At the physiological level, he recognized a "vital low", which he defined as a "diminishment of physical energy".<ref name="Boeree" /> Finally, Frankl believed that at the spiritual level, the depressed individual faces tension between who they actually are in relation to what they should be. Frankl refers to this as the gaping abyss.<ref name="Frankl1986" />{{rp|202}}<ref name="Boeree" /> Finally Frankl suggests that if goals seem unreachable, an individual loses a sense of future and thus meaning, resulting in depression.<ref name="Boeree" /> Thus logotherapy aims "to change the patient's attitude toward their disease as well as toward their life as a task".<ref name="Frankl1986" />{{rp|200}}

In order to overcome depressed feelings and thoughts, Frankl challenges individuals who suffer from depression to find meaning in their suffering.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Frankl |first1=Victor |title=Man's Search for Meaning |date=1959 |publisher=Beacon Press |isbn=080701429X}}</ref> Frankl frequently cites [[Nietzsche]]'s words, "If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nietzsche |first1=Friedrich |title=Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer |date=1889 |publisher=Penguin Publishing |isbn=978-0140445145}}</ref> Suffering and all the [[negative emotion]]s that come with it are a normal part of the human experience and should even be expected. Edith Weisskopf-Joelson, a psychologist and follower of logotherapy, argues that "our current mental-hygiene philosophy stresses the idea that people ought to be happy, that unhappiness is a symptom of maladjustment. Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Weisskopf-Joelson |first1=Edith |title=Some comments on a Viennese school of psychiatry. |journal=The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology |date=November 1955 |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=701–703 |doi=10.1037/h0045771 |pmid=13286026 |url=https://doi.org/10.1037/h0045771|url-access=subscription }}</ref>