about andy
27 years of panic. Then none.
Andy Meldrum is not a physician or a licensed therapist. He is something rarer: a man who fought panic attacks for 9,855 days, found a way out, and has been free since December 19, 2012.
andy's story
It started in 1986 — a wave of terror with no reason attached to it. Racing heart, tunneling vision, the absolute certainty that something was about to end. Then it happened again. And again, for 27 years.
Andy did what most people do. He hid it. He worked around it. He got advice about breathing and staying positive, and he learned a hundred ways to cope with an enemy nobody else could see.
Coping was not freedom. What finally changed things was a set of practical, repeatable Sensible Solutions — plain-language tools built out of hard experience rather than a clinical textbook. On December 19, 2012, he had his last panic attack. He has not had one since.
Today Andy lives in Middle Tennessee with his wife, Yvette. He speaks to companies, medical conferences, colleges, schools, and churches — telling the truth about panic and handing people a plan instead of a platitude.
"The cavalry isn't coming. That sounds like bad news until you realize what it actually means: you can do this yourself."
experience & perspective
27 years
Living with panic disorder
9,855 days
Of an invisible war
Dec 19, 2012
The last panic attack
Zero
Panic attacks since
Author
Slaying the Panic Dragon
Middle Tennessee
Home, with his wife Yvette
Andy is not a physician, psychologist, or licensed therapist. His work is lived experience, not medical advice, and is meant to stand alongside — never replace — care from a qualified professional.
the work behind the book
Written by a survivor.
Slaying the Panic Dragon is the book Andy needed in 1986 and could never find: written in plain language, by someone who has been in the room with the dragon.
It names what panic actually feels like, refuses to dress it up, and then lays out the Sensible Solutions that ended it — step by step, without jargon.
It is short on purpose. It is meant to be dog-eared, argued with, and used.
milestones
The long road.
- 1986
The first attack
Out of nowhere, the body sounds an alarm with no fire attached. The war begins without a name for it.
- 1990s
Living around it
Work, family, and faith continue — while an invisible enemy quietly redraws the map of where it is safe to go.
- 2000s
Searching for answers
Books, professionals, advice, and well-meaning platitudes. Plenty of coping. No cure.
- 2012
December 19
The last panic attack. Not managed. Not endured. Finished — and it has stayed finished ever since.
- Today
Sensible Solutions
Speaking to physicians, companies, students, and congregations about eliminating panic, not just surviving it.
past photos
In the field.
Bring Andy to your audience
Ready when you are.
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