In my own work, I have viewed addictive behavior as functioning to ward off feelings of helplessness or powerlessness, which are experienced by the addict as terrifying and overwhelming. Dodes, M.D., formerly of Harvard Medical School and a distinguished fellow of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, published a landmark paper in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association that argued for re-categorizing addictions as a “subset of compulsions”: Until the mid-'90s, medical researchers had been slow, even recalcitrant, to acknowledge, or even entertain the idea of, a link between compulsion and addiction. As the writer Steve Kolowich once said: “Sometimes you've gotta fight the fire you can't control with the one you can.” “No different from eating a Pop-Tart every day.”Ĭall it tragedy, blessing, or fuzzy science: For a certain type of addict, a lesser disorder can prove balm for a greater and far more destructive disorder. And, the beauty was, he can stop it, on a dime, if you work things right.” Nelson snaps his fingers: like that.
If you're addicted to-I mean he could get just as addicted to a vanilla milkshake as he could to heroin.
“OCD is a very funny thing,” Nelson says, “because you don't merely like stuff you like stuff. Winter is wedged into a pleather couch at an acute angle, his head slouched slightly toward me, a smile under his cowboy hat around which two rattlesnakes are coiled and bare their fangs. Paul leans forward in his chair, interpreter, finisher of Winter's sentences, the teller of Winter's tale. We're in Winter's dressing room in Austin, where he is stealing a moment of rest between rehearsals for Jimmy Kimmel's show from South By Southwest on Thursday, March 13. Like the Force in Star Wars or something.” So I took his OCD and used it against him to help him. “It was a ritual,” Nelson says: “'I have to take this, I have to do this.' Johnny didn't need methadone he needed the idea of methadone. The switch came in 2010, when a doctor diagnosed Winter with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Most important, he refused to give up methadone, which helped him establish an illusory sense of control over the keening demands of his body and brain. Winter entered rehab over three decades ago to kick 10-plus-years of heroin addiction. When Johnny was diagnosed in 2010, we finally noticed the fingers started twiddling." This helped secure a substantial recording contract from Columbia Records in 1969 that led to an appearance at the Woodstock Festival and gave him a wide following among college students and young blues fans.Ĭrowds were dazzled by the speed - and volume - of his guitar playing, which had its roots in urban blues but incorporated elements of rock ’n’ roll."The person of course doesn't know he has OCD, and the OCD doesn't want to let you know you have it. His career received a big boost early on when Rolling Stone singled him out as one of the best blues guitarists on the Texas scene. But his addiction problems with heroin during that decade and later battles with alcohol and prescription medication, including methadone, also drew attention. Winter was one of the most popular live acts of the early 1970s, when his signature fast blues guitar solos attracted a wide following. He was the older brother of Edgar Winter, also an albino, who rose to musical fame with the Edgar Winter Group. 23, 1944, in Mississippi, but was raised in Beaumont, Texas. The tour, a documentary that premiered at the SXSW Festival exploring his music, youth and substance abuse battles, and a newly released four-CD set of recordings were all part of Winter’s celebration of turning 70 this year. His last performance was on Saturday at the Lovely Days Festival in Wiesen, Austria. Winter had been on an extensive tour this year that recently brought him to Europe.
There was no immediate word on the cause of death. The statement said his wife, family and bandmates were all saddened by the loss of one of the world’s finest guitarists. His representative, Carla Parisi, confirmed Thursday that Winter died in a hotel room in Zurich a day earlier.
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