Social Isolation and Recovering From Depression (Help?)

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So I'm 22 now. When I was 17 and in college, I had a breakdown and was diagnosed with depression and generalized anxiety. I left college soon after and moved back home. In the past year or so, I've been steadily recovering, especially in physical terms (eating better, sleep, exercise), but I still find it impossible to accomplish many simple tasks and keep commitment. I'm often late to work. I oversleep if I have to wake up early. When I try to keep a to-do list of things to accomplish, I never get the whole thing done. Now, I think the problem has something to do with social isolation. The region I am is pretty rural and poor (over 20% unemployment in 2014). I moved around a lot as a kid and I come from an abusive family (not my word, the word of social workers and physicans), so I've never kept many close friends for long. There's not much going on where I live. There are no adult sports leagues I can find, no clubs or people to hang out with. There's one gym, but I don't know anyone there. Most of the young people leave after graduating high school. It seems to me that without close friends it's hard to commit to anything and be productive. I'm looking to go back to school (I was on a full-ride scholarship, so hopefully I still have potential), but I think I need to build something of resume first. I've only been able to find a few odd jobs to work at, and I just lost my last job last week when the business closed. I've taken to creative writing, to see if maybe I can get a short story or essay published in a decent literary magazine, but every time I sit down to write I get a feeling, that I can't quite put down specifically, of dread, and stop thinking and find myself in front of the computer again 10 minutes later. I'm desperate to fix this. How might I bring people into my life as an adult who might be supportive to my interests, especially when I'm not around many people geographically (the closest big city to me is Philadelphia, about 1.5 hour's drive)?