Thin vertical black lines and somewhat blurry fonts

I was using the App store when all of a sudden my screen goes into a trange whitish background. I rebooted the laptop when when it came back on it is fuzzy in the fonts are a little blurry with small black lines running vertically across the entire screen. Could anyone help? Its a macbok pro 2009.

Take it in for diagnosis. A hardware problem cannot be diagnosed remotely.
Barry

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