Recurring nightmares Wu Kuang-hsien, head of the psychiatry department at Mackay Memorial Hospital, says that Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, strikes those who have personally been through a major trauma such as military combat, a natural disaster, a sexual assault, the murder of a loved one, a riot or an automobile accident.
馬偕醫院精神科主任吳光顯指出，在醫學上，所謂的「創傷後壓力癥候群」，又稱為「重大打擊後遺症」，泛指個人遭遇不平常、重大的打擊事件，例如從戰爭、自然災害，到強姦、謀殺、暴動、交通事故後，其心理受到創傷而產生的特殊癥狀。