Screen goes grey when picking up laptop

I have an issue on an 5 year old mac book pro.  Sometimes when you pick it up by either front corner and holding the opposite top corner of the monitor, the screen will go grey.  The power is still on, but no display.  Not sure if it is indeed still operational behind the grey screen...
Holding down the power button until it powers down and then boot it back up, everything is fine again.
Any suggestions?
Chassis flex shorting out he display cables perhaps?
Thanks

my computer has been like this for over a month, I can't do anything with it, i even tried to connect it to my tv using an HDMI cable with an adapter and I wasn't able to. I know it's not the adapter since I have another macbook, an older version, and it works fine... I need my computer and this is honestly getting ridiculous... get it together Apple!

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