Pt1. got too long for a post:

8.5year alcoholic here.
Really 8.5 years ago I wasn't even much of a drinker.
Pretty much before it I went through all of 4 years of university doing maybe 6 or so parties.
All of which I always had to figure out to get home, couldn't go hard.
During the start of the last year of uni I got a job, simply because my 3 year degree turned into 4. I moved classes around to be 3.5 years, with time off to get a internship in the last year of it, but then the university moved shit about. Got the internship, finished degree blah blah.

After university, and having an income source I decided to do some things. Managed to somehow link-up with some anons from a /a/ thread for a Japan meetup.
Went to Japan for a month, fantastic, drank too much with them, and did comiket.
Next year, did it again, this time same, drinking, comiket, we all went together for a week long road trip.
All over the previous two years, I'm drinking heavily on Skype with the other guys. Wouldn't call it alcoholism, just clowns drinking on the weekend.

Forward to 2017, I had the chance to work in Japan, so I took it.
Moved to Japan, alcoholism got out of control, 24/7 access to alcohol is awful. Drinking every night alone, slaming strong zero(9%, 500ml cans). Friday and Saturday nights it got worse.
Several times I found myself turning up hungover to work on weekday. Yet somehow people didn't notice? or never brought it up? Maybe they just thought it was part of my personality.
And it's just continued.