Reminder about the human condition

I recently received season 5 of Six Feet Under. Having already watched 4 episodes, it's amazing how grounding and indeed human, this series is. I bow to the producers, directors, actors and all of those associated with this fantastic piece of televsion;if only more TV programmes adopted this approach incorporating compassion, empathy, anger, sadness, humour, philosophical thinking, enlightenment, human dysfunctional behaviour, challenging our own assumptions and judgements about life and people.
I've been so pleasantly, as always, en-tranced by season 5. There's a strong mental health theme running through the first 4 episodes with Billy, who is bi polar, wanting to 'feel alive' again, hence his decision to stop taking strong medication. However, this has the detrimental effect on him, in that he ends up hugely paranoid, suspicious, jealous, aggressive and impulsive. Not that we're all not impulsive on some level, I certainly can be at times. Anyway, poor Billy...I feel for his character because we all like to 'feel alive' and a feel a sense of 'heightened energy amd awareness'. I guess for him, it just goes beyond what is safe and sufficient to maintain on a daily level.
George, Ruth's husband, has also been unwell and received electric shock treatment which has exposed his early childhood memory of his mother commiting suicide in front of him when he was a young boy. George is having constant visual and auditory hallucinations about this time in his life with his mother being in these, most of the time. How sad and indeed tragic for these demons to be reappear for him. I guess though in a way, we are never able to escape our demons as such but I guess the way we have to cope with them is to try and face up to them and do something positive to cope with this, rather than burying them..however, dfepending on what trauma an individual has been through, it's easier said than done.
Nate and Brenda are finally together as destiny and fate, would have it and indeed, as it's meant to be for these soulmates.
Keith and David are happier and more comfortable with each other than ever before, with Keith containing and understanding his anger compulsions.
Wow, what intricate stories and lives these people lead, so much so, it makes you realise that we're all humans capable of so many emotions and dysfunctions yet able to be so full of love and warmth at the same time. And indeed when we realise this, and indeed stop buying into what we're made to think we should live and act like, then I feel the world woyuld be a less pressured place to be in.
Six Feet Under, I salute your genius!