Words are inadequate

No, that makes perfect sense, but those are the kind of things you /can't/ plan for. And if I start thinking about them I start thinking about all the much more likely horrible things that could happen, and I end up spending the evening curled up in a ball on the couch.

Wow, that's a downer. I just need a plausible line of action whereby something will change for the better before I start doing random stuff I don't want to do for whatever reason, and the bar for 'plausible' is low but not so low that 'you might meet the love of your life!' will clear it. (In real-world situations, "Actually getting out and doing something will make you feel better" is often sufficient. And the cases where it's not are ones where I badly needed to recharge anyway.)