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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 [[Trauma| 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

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 [[MGM| genital mutilation]]. Some of these simply give up themselves by committing suicide.<ref name="watson2014" />