We all use the word âtraumaâ in every day language to mean a highly stressful event. But the key to understanding traumatic events is that it refers to extreme stress that overwhelms a personâs ability to cope.
Angus MacGyver (known as just MacGyver, or Mac) is a title character and the protagonist of the ABC television series MacGyver. He is played by Richard Dean Anderson.
Like his two most famous characters, Angus MacGyver of MacGyver (1985) and Colonel/Brigadier General Jack O'Neill of Stargate SG-1 (1997), he was raised in the Upper Midwest--Minnesota. MacGyver was born in Minnesota, Jack in Chicago, IL.