To think DH has trauma?

[iabuik]

DH has a lot of anger issues which he has previously refused to accept any accountability for and claimed it was just his personality. Recently he has admitted that he thinks he processes emotion as anger in response to having been bullied at school and not wanting to show vulnerability, and that this is the only difficulty he experienced as a child and that his childhood was otherwise trauma free.

For context, his dad abandoned him at as a toddler/young child and was generally quite a violent man (not towards DH or DH's mother but the outside world), so he had practically no involvement from his biological father as a child/young adult. He had a very turbulent relationship with his stepfather growing up and has only begun to get on with him now he's in his 30s. So all in all, DH had practically no father figure growing up.

AIBU to think, whether DH realises/wants to admit it or not, that these circumstances would cause a child trauma?

He should try therapy.

I don't disagree @Calvinlookingforhobbes , in fact it's been something I've been trying to get him to realise he'd likely benefit from for a long time.

His anger issues are probably a learned response to past trauma. I agree that he could benefit from some counselling. At the moment, his default response to any emotional situation is anger. He needs some support in enabling him to understand why it happens, which would help him change things for the better.

It does sound like trauma. When he's ready for it, counselling may help him process his emotions or bad feelings.