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It's worth making a (non-judgmental) clarification here, because I've decked in the exact same situation.

At the 3rd clip:

• You fell because a hold spun and you popped off. Fair enough.
• You decked because there was too much rope in the system.
• Too much rope means you're clipping too high or your belayer let out too much slack. From context it sounds like the former.

Clipping high is psychologically more comforting, but apart from the extra time and energy wasted on rope management, it results in much bigger, less controlled falls because you're ignoring the extra rope in the system and you don't have a clear instinctive understanding of how far you're going to drop. You should be MORE afraid of clipping high, not less, and you need to keep reminding yourself of that, repeatedly overwriting your instinctive reaction with physics and logic.

Falling is as much a technical skill as flagging or drop-knees, and the reason falling is still scary is that you haven't done enough of it to dial it in yet. Start incorporating clip-drop training into your warmups, taking a bunch of very controlled falls on super easy routes, slowly building up the height up to and then above the draw, and you'll have this licked in a couple of weeks.

Followup recommendation - Vertical Mind: Psychological Approaches for Optimal Rock Climbing by Don McGrath and Jeff Elison is a fantastic read on the psychology of rock-climbing that explains where the illogical climbing-related short circuits and bluescreens come from, and gives solid zero-fluff science-backed strategies for addressing them.