High school girls experienced peer pressure to lose weight and become skinny like those "popular cheerleader girls". Several researchers have demonstrated the importance of friends, suggesting that weight-related attributes and behavior among friendship groups can predict body image, diet initiation, chronic dieting, and eating disorder symptoms, even after controlled for various family, friend, and individual factors. Eisenburg, Neumark-Sztainer, Story, and Perry, 2005, p. High school girls often feel isolated because of their weight and rely on advice from their friends. Some of these friends suggest a diet or other ways to reduce weight and those girls take it very seriously and develop eating disorders and unhealthy weight. However, in the end, these girls realize that slimming down and losing weight is not as important as others believe. These girls are often indirectly pressured to lose weight and "fit in", which causes growth and development problems and causes disturbances in brain development. Self-harm is another key component in high school students. Students often choose to harm themselves because they are unable to handle stressful situations and rely on self-harm to release the stress they have been keeping inside all this time. The author of this study compared adolescent self-injurers with non-injurers and found that self-injurers showed greater physiological reactivity during a distressing task, a lower ability to tolerate this distress, and deficits in several social problem-solving skills ( Nock and Mendes, 2008, p.28). Students who can't handle the stress of high school rely on self-harm to feel better. This not only causes physical problems but also mental ones. Also, s......middle of paper......people are involved in romantic relationships. According to Greca and Harrison (2005), in late adolescence, adolescents report greater closeness with romantic partners than with best friends, parents, and siblings (p. 49). High school juniors and seniors tend to share their feelings and problems with their romantic partner. Communicating with someone positively benefits brain development because when you talk to others about your feelings, you don't keep them all bottled up, which isn't healthy. However, when someone who is very close to their romantic partner goes through a breakup, they will keep their feelings to themselves and often end up doing things that they regret later, but this is not the case for everyone who goes through a bad breakup. on. It's important for students to communicate with someone, whether it's a romantic partner, best friends, parents, or siblings.