No idea if this is the right forum for this. I feel like since the moment I gave birth I have felt extreme empathy towards a lot of things. Does anyone else know what I mean?

I thought it was just linked to my hormones regulating after birth and would fade in a few weeks but it's stayed with me. It's with everything- news articles about plane crashes, missing persons, babies being in car accidents, parents losing weeks old babies, child abuse (that's a big one), suckling pigs being slaughtered, sow stalls and animal welfare in general, old cases I've worked on, TV shows about poverty, poor working conditions in third world countries, when we travelled to Indonesia recently I thought about how much we have and how little others have and not just in terms of material possessions, also in terms of things like sunlight, open space, clean living conditions.

I've never experienced so much of this kind of exquisite, heart-wrenching pain before about so many day-to-day things before. It's crazy!

Is this a thing? Is it related to hormones? Or will it be a life-long change?