You will find that you aren't the only one with antenna restrictions, those indoor antennas aren't that uncommon. All indoor antennas are going to be less than 'perfect', no way around that. A signal has to reach that antenna to be heard, and walls will attenuate a signal to some extent depending on what those walls are made from. Metal in some form or other will attenuate/block/deflect RF more than just ordinary wood.
There are two problems with an indoor antenna. The first is finding one that will 'fit'. The typical 1/4 wave length CB/11 meter antenna is something like 9 feet long/tall. Unless your apartment is in an older building you just don't find many ceilings over about 8 feet tall. So, a shorter than 'normal' antenna is required. That typically means a mobile antenna. The problem with that is that the antenna it's self is only 'half' of an antenna, the vehicle's metal body makes of it's other 'half'. So you have to provide that 'other half' for a mobile antenna to work properly. That 'other half' is usually called a "groundplane" or counterpoise. It can be in a number of shapes, a simple 9 foot length of wire is one of those shapes. Sitting the antenna in a corner with the counterpoise run along the base of the wall can be made to work. That "making it work" is just tuning the antenna, all antennas require that to some extent.
The other problem with indoor antennas is that they are closer to the electrical things in the house/apartment and that means that any transmitted signal can interfere with things. Not just yours, but anyone else's that happens to be close to that antenna too. That's about as common as you can get, doesn't mean there's anything 'wrong' with the antenna, just too much RF too close to something susceptible to RF interference.
So can you find some antenna that 'fits' the circumstances, that isn't too short, and can put up with any interference, it should work. How well it works is variable according to all the attenuation due to building materials used in your building's construction.
The 'catch' with any shortened antenna is that they tend to be more difficult to tune correctly and aren't very usable over a wide range of frequencies. Shortened antennas are just more trouble to get working correctly indoors or out doors both.
- 'Doc
That counterpoise, or 'other half' of the antenna should be at least as long as the antenna it's self, longer doesn't hurt anything at all. It's just harder to make fit the situation/space available. Wadding it up into a ball doesn't work. Have fun...