Finally escaped unemployment. Now I don't do anything.

I spent 2 years unemployed. It was hell. My life was drive for the food delivery apps, spam applications, drive for the apps, applications, go to bed. Over 1000 applications and I finally got a job. I want to begin with saying I feel amazing mentally speaking having a job again. It was destroying me, the anxiety, the overwhelmed feelings, the depression, the feeling like I didn’t deserve to enjoy anything until this obligation was handled, like I was wasting time. I feel great now. My mental is doing so much better. My general anxiety has dropped by like 75% and my social anxiety by damn near 100%. I feel better about myself. This was the longest I have ever been unemployed since I was 13. And I grew up with a mother who at times worked 2-3 jobs to make ends meet so I just don’t do well without one. This current job market is hell.

However, now on my days off I do nothing. The job itself is nothing crazy, full time, active, around people, okay pay, I’m a merchandiser. I stopped being sore and tired after the second week and in fact now I have much more energy. My sleep has improved too. I also get a three day weekend. So, everything is in order to where I feel I should be able to utilize and truly appreciate free time. And yet, I’m almost suffering from couch lock (bed lock). I just lay in bed and doom scroll and distract myself with video games I don’t even like and do some house work which eats up all of 2 hours. There’s certainly shit I could be doing which I previously thoroughly enjoyed such as fishing. But I just cant seem to get myself going. I’m not tired, mentally or physically. I don’t understand why this is happening. While unemployed it felt like I was wasting my life if I did anything for fun. Now with a job not doing anything for fun I feel like I’m wasting my life. How ridiculous is that? This has always been an issue I’ve had. My last job I worked 6-7 days a week and whenever I had a day off I just rested inside. Now though I get half the week off and I still do nothing.

Does anyone have advice, or has anyone been through similar? I do have more goals in order and getting this job was only step one for me, but now I am beginning to worry that when I’ve tackled these goals and made it where I want to be, that I’ll still find myself going through this and feel like it was all for nothing.

EDIT:

There’s way more replies than I expected, and I’ve read a lot. I didn’t realize so many would be able to relate to some of the things I mentioned. Thank you everyone. I will continue reading and try to respond to some a little after work tomorrow.

As far as the gap goes, I decided to start testing whatever I could and eventually put down that I’ve been driving for the apps. That turned the gap from 2 years into like 5 weeks. No clue if that actually helped. But I’ve done all the usual stuff like even walking in IRL and pestering management at places and only this seems to have made the difference. I’ve also applied to just about everything from janitorial, retail, trades, unskilled labor, coding, to office jobs. Basically if I qualified, had any prior experience, or believed I could learn on the job, I applied.