Stress

How does someone avoid stress??? Do they hide under their bed completely shut off from the world? I find it somewhat humerous when the doctor tells me I need to have less stress. Now that's something I'd be willing to take a pill for! How do you have less stress? I mean personally I would love to have a stress-free life but how to actually have that....I'm completely lost about. I mean, do I have to first win the lottery that I don't even play? Do I have to have all my kids grown and married off first? Do I have to find the secret to being independently weathly (that I have been searching for all these years lol)? I just don't get it.