high school drama

Okay so high school drama really stinks. It pulls in everybody and won't let anyone out, and it's usually over little or medium things that can be solved and instead taken to extreme. Why do teenagers take this route? I think one of the reasons is that it has to do something with teens still going through adolesence etc. Seriously, when you are going through it, you experience different chemical reactions in your brain which causes you to act differently, such as mood swings. So when something really tense comes up dealing with H.S.D., your brain can't handle the stress and gets aggressive. There is also a whole bunch of pressure from friends and aquaintances. While during high school your friends are probably your closest confidente, when something extreme comes up your friends expect you to help them out. Yet when it gets to a big major thing, such as friends fighting and taking sides, there is alot of pressure to stick up for one or the other. Basically, if you take a side, you are falling into the dumb pit of high school drama that solves absolutely nothing!