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That voice that tells you to cut, sounds like it is the unrealistic part of us. It fools us into thinking that destructive behavior will be better than finding a different way to deal with our pain.
I know that bipolars carry anger within us. I think that anger comes from being exposed to repeated threats to our person as we were growing up. They could have been real or our perceptions as a child.
That part of us that is unrealistic, appears to think that turning anger inward will dispel it. It tricks us well. Cutting does relieve our emotional pain as long as we believe it does.
I finally broke my urge by asking myself a series of questions that looked at what self injury would really do to help the problem I was dealing with. Even if the problem was depression, anxiety, rage or a combination. by the time I finished answering the questions the urge passed. Over time I could reject the urge much faster and easier.
Hope this is of some help.
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 BB to all.
The present moment is the only one we can impact. 
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