Why does your anxiety go down when doing erp instead of up? It’s like I’ll think the thoughts and my anxiety goes down but when they come up on their own like they do 247 it goes up?

I think it’s because we’re constantly in panic/survival mode, but when an actual crisis arises we’re really good at handling it. So confronting the anxiety allows us to feel like we’ve handled it and our body naturally relaxes afterwards. Just my theory!