Have you considered volunteering as an intermediate step towards getting a paid job? If money isn't that pressing of an issue, volunteering is a pretty great way of building up experience, reaching out and improving your self esteem. Most importantly it gets you out of your own head for a few hours a week (or more, should you go for multiple programs/positions). And of course, you can put that on your resume/CV which will help you on the way to that paid position. There is a continuum where some gigs will actually require you to already have a solid resume/CV because they get so many volunteers and because of the gravity of the work, but there are plenty of more relaxed, less vocational opportunities out there that you can rock up relatively unannounced. The St. Vincent De Paul society does some pretty varied work where I live, but there are plenty of opportunities out there: Red Cross, Salvation Army, even your local council.
Depression is a catch-22 of misery: Being depressed makes it incredibly difficult to anything, and not doing anything makes you depressed. Which is why it's so important to break out of that cycle of inactivity. In an ever evolving world, stagnation is slow death.
