I said "other". I think I would be (am) able to recognize lies in certain things. At the same time, pretty sure I could not tell in other areas, especially those where I do not have enough information on the therapist. I used to think that I was very good at detecting lies in people (I guess I wished to be good at it) but experience has shown me it's definitely not always the case.
Reminds me of psychologist Paul Ekman's ideas about how facial expressions reveal lies in often subtle ways, he claims recognizing lies based on it is apparently a skill that can be learned and mastered. He had online tests for this and when I did them a few years ago, I definitely did not score above average. I believe that some people are naturally better at it than others, but I tend to be skeptical about any claim that someone could always tell lies from truth. Generally, I tend to be better at discerning truth from complex information as patterns rather than single specific things people tell me in a moment.
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