Provide a response to the below questions according to the assessment completed from your collegue. You may also provide additional information, alternative points of view, research to support treatment, or patient education strategies you might use with the relevant patient.

Questions 

1. What key factors should be assessed during the interview process to clarify the differences between bipolar anxiety and brief psychotic disorders. In considering the overlapping symptoms between bipolar disorder, brief psychotic disorder, and anxiety disorder.

2. Identify some assessment tools or scales that can be utilized to aid in a more accurate differential diagnosis and describe how these tools help in distinguishing between those disorders.