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New Zealand researcher [[Lindsay R. Watson]] describes a state of denial in grown-up men who have not yet realized that in their earliest childhood, the [[circumcision]] gave them a highly traumatic experience that they have not yet realized or even processed. When genitally mutilated men realize for the first time (often through a trigger impulse from the outside) what has been done to them, it is often like an "awakening from a coma" to them.<ref name="watson2014">{{REFbook |last=Watson |first=Lindsay R. |year=2014 |title=Unspeakable Mutilations |url= |pages= |isbn=978-1495266577 |accessdate=2021-08-13 }}</ref>

This is often followed by extreme feelings of hate, anger and loss. Chances are that these men find no way to channel their anger constructively to protect others from genital mutilation. Some of these simply give up themselves by committing suicide.<ref name="watson2014" />