I'm seeing pain in everyone I meet, so having more trouble

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Hey /adv/,

I've never been especially good with small-talk and things of that nature, but things are becoming ridiculous. I can barely look directly at people, let alone talk to them, without becoming overwhelmed by the sense that they are suffering in some sense (inb4 they are suffering because of proximity to me).

It's something about the eyes, the sitting of shoulders, the way people fidget, their unhealthy skin-tones and unfit bodies, the quiet knowledge that we're all struggling for survival or security, the belief that we're all at least a little afraid that we'll never be loved and understood as we'd like to be.

Life is generally getting a little harder in my city, but not enough that I think the problem is external. I feel like there's something wrong with me. Maybe I'm just projecting my inner fears - imposing them wherever my intuition detects sad/angry body language?
But that wouldn't make a lot of sense, because I'm feeling relatively good about my own life these days.

Whatever it is, I want it to stop.

I have a history of Depression, but I'm being treated and having some conventional success in day-to-day life. It's confusing, that I'm seeing pain which was invisible to me before whilst doing "better".

Is the world just that damn sad (even in the West)?

If the world is that damn sad, how do I make the sadness invisible again?

Please help.