I wanted to clarify on the sharing a positive feeling like "love" with the voice. It sounds really new age type stuff and that may turn people off, I know it would me.

Think of your emotions like a scale, if something is adding negative thoughts and emotions. The scale will tip to the negative side and you start feeling bad. The way to counter is not to add more negativity, but to add positive emotions. It's same principle if you were beating yourself up, you counter them with positive thought. And love is one of the strongest and easiest for most too conjure and hold. I imagine my love for my family and share that. I used humor for most my time and it does work. But I always felt I had an intellectual advantage over the voice in my head, so it's actions were often quite amusing to me.

And the beauty of it is, even if it wasn't you doing it and some negative force, It would work the same way.