Mental health and emotional pain are major issues for people living with cystic fibrosis, but are aspects of care that are only recently being addressed in a serious way. The latest video in the CF Unmasked series features James O’Connell, who shares his diagnosis story, why he felt isolated and alone as a child, and how that led him down a self-destructive path to addiction.

Tune in to learn more about his story and how he finally learned that he deserved love from the people around him, with or without cystic fibrosis.

This video podcast was made possible through an unrestricted educational grant from The Allergan Foundation to the Boomer Esiason Foundation.