‘Convoy for a Cause Rolling Out of Brisbane’ – Triple M Radio Interview
The Stand Tall 4 PTS Lightning Convoy travelled two weeks along the East Coast of Australia, raising awareness of PTS, and the fact that there is help available.
Daryl Elliott Green participated in the convoy and was interviewed by Triple M radio on the day of the launch.
He has battled PTS since surviving an infamous close-range shooting in Chermside in May 2000. In the interview he explains that while soldiers and frontline workers are commonly diagnosed, anyone can suffer from it. “We’re talking about military personnel and emergency services personnel, but you’ll have victims of crime, people involved in road carnage, even people involved in horrible domestic violence incidents. It can be a single event or prolonged exposure,” he says.
And Daryl explains that we need to be more straightforward about getting help. “If you’ve got trouble with your plumbing, you call a plumber. If you’ve got car trouble you call a
mechanic. If you’re having flashbacks, bad dreams, anxiety, you should be calling a mental health professional (or GP),” he says.
Lately the word “disorder” is being dropped from the name of the condition. “Because it’s not seen as a disorder, it’s a condition, an illness. There’s nothing wrong with you, what you’ve been
through is an extraordinary set of circumstances and you’re having a natural reaction to it,” Daryl says.
He explains there’s still a stigma surrounding PTS, because there are a lot of misconceptions about it: “That someone’s just a shirker, or looking for time off work, or looking to sue an organisation. Those things are very very harmful and it drives the person into the pit of despair and anxiety, and it’s unfortunately all too common,” he says.
The convoy left Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium at midday on the 14 June 2016.
PSTD was once thought of as being all in the head, or it was simply ignored. These days, the disorder is talked about so much so that Brisbane hosted an international forum where Senior Sergeant Daryl Elliott Green was a keynote speaker for a plenary session. Listen to Daryl share his story, of sitting calmly in a police vehicle and making background checks on an individual, when a gunman ambushed him, and shot him in the face and shoulder before attacking his partner and then his Sergeant. Daryl delves into the therapeutic aspects of talking about the shooting and the multitude of effects of PTSD. Listen and learn from someone who has walked the walk and has lived with PTSD. Hear how he regained control of his life and continues to manage the ongoing effects of this debilitating condition.
Fifteen years ago a person from Brisbane called the police about a man with a gun. That man, Nigel Parodi, ambushed and shot three Queensland police officers. Daryl Elliott Green was one of those officer. Listen to the radio interviewer play the horrific audio of the shooting that night and speak to Daryl about powerful lessons he learnt from that experience. Amazingly Daryl turned a particularly dark time into something positive. Stop, listen and learn, some life lessons, from someone who if a bullet hit him two centres higher, it would have killed him!
The Bucketlist Guy, Trev Bell, interviews Senior Sergeant Daryl Elliott Green. Trev has Daryl talk about the incident, being shot in the face, the journey afterwards, and the big life lessons he learnt from this experience. Enjoy this 30-minute interview and gain a new perspective on life, from someone who was TWICE SHOT, and was literally, 2 centimetres away from death.
