BY Rheana Murray

Internet addiction might be considered a mental illness under proposed revisions to DSM-5, the mental-health industry’s guidebook.

Surf the web too much? That might soon land you on a psychiatrist’s couch.

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is catching heat over proposed amendments to its newest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) — widely considered the "bible" of psychiatric symptoms in the mental-health industry.

Opponents say the new version would label millions more people as "mentally ill" for conditions such as extreme shyness — and qualify them for psychiatric drugs they don't need.

"[It's] hard to avoid the conclusion that DSM-5 will help the interests of the drug companies," said Allen Frances of Duke University, according to Reuters.

The DSM-5, as the new edition will be called, is scheduled to be released in May 2013, and could list "Internet addiction" among its diagnoses.

The association says it is still considering how to address non-substance-abuse addictions.

“Gambling disorder has been moved into this category and there are other addiction-like behaviorial disorders such as ‘Internet addiction’ that will be considered as potential additions to this category as research data accumulate,” the APA says on its website.

Experts say lots of the new diagnoses are problematic - like "oppositional defiant disorder."