Alcohol supresses a part of me (the goody-two-shoes-what-would-people-say?). It does away with my anxiety and social phobia... but I cannot say it really triggers mania. It depends on my mood too. Sometimes when drinking I am happy, but sometimes I turn totally sentimental, almost "emo", it induces a world-ache in me.

But neither of those are unbearable. I don't get that anxiousity of mania when drinking.