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I tend to agree with you (this is Yona, right?)

Perhaps the brain is  more complex than any of our other organs (admittedly it is) but it is still one of our organs and as such can be diseased just like any of our other organs. There is a continuum of of healthy vs ill for every one of our other organs and like you said, someone somewhere had to decide where to make the cut between healthy and unhealthy. 

I think the one of the main differences between mental health and physical health is only that we haven't come to consensus on where to make the cut between healthy and ill. Maybe we won't ever make that hard line (and maybe there isn't one and any distinctions we make will be arbitrary). Maybe the best way to "treat" (for lack of a better word) the people who are on the cusp (i.e. autistic people etc) is to consider them to be different as opposed to diseased.

I don't know... I don't feel like I have any answers, but throwing the medical viewpoint out the window makes me feel like "What's next?" As faulty as it is, looking at mental illness from a medical point of view is the only way that seems practical, the only way that gives me a real guideline of how to move forward. 

~Laura