Why mental health is as important as physical health

Health Conditions

If the duration and/or severity of health conditions are longer or higher than average, it becomes a disability. Yet people minimise and even dismiss the mental health conditions.
      
For matters of the body like a damaged leg, you heal it. If someone has a permament limp, you manage the condition so it has a lesser impact on life. The same should be true for matters of the brain (whether short-term conditions like grief-induced depression or long-term conditions like autism).

They're the Same!

The mental is just as valid to treat, is as potent in gravity, and is as important in consideration, as the physical. As such, 'mental disability' is as true a term as 'physical disability'. 
      
Not to mention, mental health originates in the mind, a product of the brain, which in turn is a physical part of the body. So mental health is brain health is physical health. 
      
It's a false dichotomy to consider mental and physical health as different. Using terms like 'neuro-diversity' encourages this dichotomy. As such, it encourages people to minimise and dismiss mental health conditions.