‘Bachelorette’ Contestant Josh Seiter Lifeless at 36, Days After Posting About Melancholy

‘Bachelorette’ contestant Josh Seiter, who was at all times open and sincere about his struggles with psychological well being has died.

A press release from Seiter’s household Monday reads, “It’s with a particularly heavy coronary heart that we share the tragic information of Joshua’s sudden passing. As all who knew him can attest, Joshua was an extremely vivid gentle in an more and more dim world.”

They proceed, “His fearless voice and indomitable spirit helped hundreds of individuals of their darkest moments really feel just a bit much less alone. Though our heartache at Joshua’s passing pains us past measure, we discover consolation figuring out that he’s lastly at peace.”

The assertion doesn’t reveal Joshua’s reason behind dying however features a telephone quantity for folks to name who could also be experiencing a psychological well being disaster.

Josh has at all times posted about his points with psychological well being, and simply 4 days in the past posted a photograph smiling with the caption, “Surviving melancholy and nervousness at some point at a time with a smile.”

He is been extraordinarily open and sincere about his struggles over time, at one level taking to social media to put in writing, “I’m Josh Seiter, and I’m a suicide try survivor. I battle OCD, Bipolar Melancholy, and GAD, however I refuse to surrender. What did you survive?”

Josh appeared on Kaitlyn Bristowe‘s season of “The Bachelorette” again in 2015, and was eradicated on week 1.

Josh was 36.