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What is your assessment of the overlap between anxiety, mood and personality disorders? What are the key criteria that differentiate these three conditions? Provide the rationale for your response based on scientific evidence from the professional literature.

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Personality disorders are clarified briefly from anxiety and mood disorders.

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One article discusses the overlap:

Gamez, W., Watson, D., & Doebbeling, B. N. (2007). Abnormal personality and the mood and anxiety disorders: Implications for structural models of anxiety and depression. Journal Of Anxiety Disorders, 21(4), 526-539.

The authors suggest that the overlap exists between the mood and anxiety disorders is typically explained by a shared factor, negative emotionality. Overlap also seems to exist since abnormal personality traits are also assessed among patients. ...

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